Alexander Iskandaryan: Karabakh conflict current stage can be described as "peace"
It's not the Bishkek protocol but the fact that the sides has maintained armistice for 14 years is important, Director of the Caucasus Media Institute, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
The current stage of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be described as "peace", according to him.
"I do not agree when people call it "neither war nor peace." If soldiers do not fire, it means that a peaceful process is underway. The Bishkek protocol was a document that fixed the situation at the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in 1994," Iskandaryan said.
On May 12, 1994 Defense Minister Pavel Grachev of Russia and Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia as well as commander of the NKR Defense Army Samvel Babayan signed an agreement on armistice in the Karabakh conflict zone. Afterwards, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Mamedrafi Mammadov put his signature to the document which secured lasting ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh.
The current stage of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be described as "peace", according to him.
"I do not agree when people call it "neither war nor peace." If soldiers do not fire, it means that a peaceful process is underway. The Bishkek protocol was a document that fixed the situation at the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in 1994," Iskandaryan said.
On May 12, 1994 Defense Minister Pavel Grachev of Russia and Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia as well as commander of the NKR Defense Army Samvel Babayan signed an agreement on armistice in the Karabakh conflict zone. Afterwards, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Mamedrafi Mammadov put his signature to the document which secured lasting ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh.
