No one has the political strength to acknowledge obvious facts: the Nagorno Karabakh settlement is in crisis, no solution was proposed and hopes for soonest settlement did not come true, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

"To tell the truth they could not come true. The current year is coming to an end and the ungrounded optimism of American, European and Russian diplomats becomes more and more obvious. The problems of Karabakh's economic rehabilitation and resumption of Armenian-Azeri contacts beyond the Karabakh context are still unsettled," he said.