March 30, 2010 - 16:07 AMT
Samvel Babayan: Azerbaijan can lose half of its territory in case of new war

The course of Karabakh process prompts a military solution, according to former NKR Defense Minister.

"Azerbaijan is a country which wants to have everything but give nothing. So, I see no peaceful solution to the problem," Samvel Babayan told reporters in Yerevan.

"Armenia prepares for war but refrains from parading it, unlike Azerbaijan," he said, adding that Baku will never venture a new war. "Azerbaijan knows that it can lose half of its territory in case it resumes hostilities."

Asked whether Nagorno Karabakh may be re-engaged in the negotiation process, he said the OSCE Minsk Group does not even try to exert any kind of pressure on Baku in the issue. "Even if NKR rejoins talks, nothing will change. We should have signed a final package back in 1994," he said.