The recent report by International Crisis Group (ICG) aimed to substantiate a thesis on possibility of a war in Karabakh, Caucasus Institute Director stated.

As Alexander Iskandaryan told a news conference in Yerevan, inferences drawn in the report are not consistent with facts cited.

Iskandaryan, in particular, expressed his disagreement with the statement on “accidental” start to a war. “This can’t be possible, considering the fact that regular armies are involved, rather than some partisan units,” the expert noted. Iskandaryan was also ironic about increasing threat of war because of archaeological excavations in NKR.

Armenia and Azerbaijan: Preventing War, the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group (ICG), highlights “the deterioration of the situation in the past year. Increased military capabilities on both sides would make a new armed conflict in the South Caucasus far more deadly than the 1992-1994 one that ended with a shaky truce. Neither side would be likely to win easily or quickly. Even if neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan is planning an immediate all-out offensive, skirmishes could easily spiral out of control.”