Both internal and external factors incited Azerbaijan to hostilities - Ara Papyan

Ara Papyan, Head of the Modus Vivendi center, spoke of the Azerbaijan-unleashed hostilities at a meeting with reporters on Monday.

According to him, Azerbaijan had both internal and external factors that incited it to launch hostilities.

One of the internal factors is Azerbaijan’s economic problems, decline in oil prices, active national minorities.

One of the major external factors is strained Russian-Turkish relations.

Mr Papyan is surprised at Russia’s position, particularly an equal attitude to Armenia and Azerbaijan and delay in supplying arms to Armenia under a loan agreement.

“I think we can expect a further complication of the situation. Despite the current relative stability, every day claims a human life. A creeping war is on, and we should expect a larger-scale war in the near future,” Mr Papyan said.

Although the Armenian army acted excellently, Mr Papyan points out essential faults in organization of defense.

“We might have prevented unjustified casualties.”