The number of victims has really increased - Azerbaijani journalist
During today’s panel discussion entitled “Recent Political Developments and Heightened Tension along the Armenian-Azerbaijani Border,” Azerbaijani journalist, political analyst Shahin Rzayev said more people are killed along the Line of Contact these days. “But people in Azerbaijan, unlike Armenia, believe that the war has not ended yet and soldiers are killed in the war,” he said. Stepan Grigoryan, Head of the Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation, stressed that ‘the initiative always comes from the Azerbaijani side.’ “Azerbaijan wants to show the international community that the problem is not solved, it is not frozen,” he said. Tevan Poghosyan, a lawmaker representing the Heritage faction at the Armenian National Assembly, said Armenian military units were ready for the intensified tension on the border at the beginning of the year; the Defence Ministry’s statement that Armenia can take cautionary steps and respond to Azerbaijan on the spot testify to this belief. Analyzing the tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in recent days, we see two important factors. Everything is the same from the military point of view, but Azerbaijan is attempting to increase the geographic scope of its attacks. If in the past ceasefire violations were determined by the amount of fired shots, today they are determined by the number of victims,” said Richard Giragosian, Founding Director of the Regional Studies Center.
