Head of Caucasus Department at the CIS Institute Mikhail Alexandrov said that the Karabakh conflict cannot be solved under the current balance of forces in the world and South Caucasus.

“The only variant for the conflict settlement may appear after a considerable weakening of the West, NATO’s collapse and withdrawal of the U.S. from Eurasia,” Alexandrov told a press conference in Yerevan, adding that there is such prospect.

“We see that NATO is indeed in a very difficult situation, the European Union is bulging at the seams, and even the Schengen Agreement is endangered,” said Alexandrov.

According to him, all this is related to the global financial crisis.