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Tensions at the Line of Contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan were expected with Azerbaijan firing first and endangering the civilian population not for the first time, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan told a press conference on Friday.

To Iskandaryan’s conviction, Azerbaijan has probably decided to resort to provocations from time to time, at the same time refusing to implement the proposal of establishing investigation mechanism that would reveal it is the actual violator of the ceasefire.

“I am not inclined to think this is preparation for war, otherwise they [Azerbaijanis] would maintain silence. If those incidents are aimed at political consumption within the country, everything was done right as the replication of the image of a killed child generates the expected outcome,” the political scientist stressed. 
Iskandaryan next pointed to the consolidation formed after the April war in Artsakh to withstand the external threat. He referred to presidential elections slated for July in Artsakh, where ‘the rule of democracy has long established unlike the monarchy in Azerbaijan.’ “Aliyev can be removed from the power in the result of either a death or social unrest,” the political scientist noted.

The Head of the Caucasus Institute touched upon also the G20 summer underway in Hamburg, suggesting the participants might reflect on Artsakh issue along with the Syrian Crisis and Russia-West relations yet without any subject-matter discussions.