"Our nations have already derived the benefit from the people's diplomacy. It's enough to remember the released hostages and POWs," Azeri political scientist Zardusht Alizade stated in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. "But at the current stage its efficiency is low, since it's opposed by the united power forces in Armenia and Azerbaijan. People's diplomacy is a pioneer hacking through the jungles of hostility. Nobody knows whether the society will follow some ideologists or the well-organized criminal community of the strong. The self-interest of great powers has a huge influence upon the Near East as well as in the North and South Caucasus.