Azerbaijan will lose more of its lands in case of new war in Karabakh, expert says

PanARMENIAN.Net - The president of Far Centre, the centre for political and economic studies, former ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia presented his vision of the development of events in case of a new war in Karabakh.

''Should Azeri authorities start a new war in Karabakh, the events will probably follow 2008 Russian-Georgian war scenario. Russia will interfere at once, with planes without distinguishing signs flying all over us. Azerbaijan will lose even more lands, TNs, ets. However, I do not see this happening,'' Hikmet Hajizadeh stated.

As he noted, increased incidents of ceasefire violation is part of Azeri strategy. ''An actual war would become a tragedy to Baku,'' he remarked.

''The probability of Moscow's supporting Armenia's passing some of territories over to Azerbaijan is inexistent. Perhaps, western mediators pressured Yerevan into ceding territories; still, Moscow has never attempted it. As far as I know, Moscow has always forbidden Armenia to make such steps,'' newcaucasus.com cited the expert as saying.