June 11, 2008 - 17:47 AMT
War in Karabakh possible in case of severe crisis
War is always possible but it's not because someone wants it, according to a Russian analyst.

"This is the logic of conflict development. War in Karabakh is possible only in case of a severe crisis. True, there will be no blitzkrieg. For its part, the international community will never allow a long war. However, not everything in politics can be explained by reasonability," Alexander Skakov, head of the CIS department at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, during Yerevan-Moscow-Baku TV space bridge.

For his part, Armenian political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan remarked that accumulation of armament is the closest way to peace. "Resolution of the Karabakh conflict is unlikely in the foreseeable future. This is a long process like the other lingering conflicts, such as China-Taiwan, India-Kashmir, Israel-Palestine, Cyprus," he said.