Azerbaijan abandoned the idea of a stepwise resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, ready to start a new war, according to a political analyst.

As Suren Zolyan told a news conference in Yerevan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s statement at June 26 military parade in Baku proves the abovementioned. “Azerbaijan realized that its hopes for the international community to pressure Armenia into unilateral concessions, in order to benefit from Baku’s geographical position and oil-and-gas resources, stayed unfulfilled,” he said.

Another political expert Harutyun Mesropyan, in turn, characterized unilateral concessions, namely, return of liberated territories demanded from Armenia, as illogical. “The instigator of a war must be punished,” he stressed, noting that Armenian society is quickly catching defeatist moods which infected the country’s authorities.

Despite optimistic forecasts and encouragement, the anticipated June 24 meeting ended in a statement saying that the heads of state “noted the reaching of mutual understanding on a number of questions, whose resolution helps create conditions to approve the basic principles."

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan praised the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries for their continuous attention to the problem and once again thanked Russian President for his personal endeavors to bring the positions of the conflicting sides closer.