With Ilham Aliyev's coming to power the Nagorno Karabakh conflict has reached a deadlock, Head of the Department of Conflictology and Migration of the Azerbaijani Institute of Peace and Democracy Arif Yunusov stated in Yerevan today. In his words, Ilham Aliyev came to power with the help of militaristic rhetoric. Arif Yunusov stressed that it was Ilham Aliyev, who many times called upon the Azerbaijani public organizations to refrain from any contacts with Armenia