'The war in Karabakh will inevitably be a draw between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
If it is protracted and grows into bloodshed, which will result in the flows of refugees and violation of human rights, it may also involve neighbor states including Turkey and Russia', said head of the Program of New European Democracies of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies Yanus Bugaiski.
He said no conflict can remain frozen for an indefinite period, if only there is not a definite progress in the direction of its solution or the opposition parties are offered other benefits. Even in the case with Cyprus, the European Union interfered with this issue, offering the country to join EU though Cyprus remained territorially divided into two parts.
'Regardless of the course and content of the current negotiations on Karabakh, the issue of the final status of Karabakh must be settled. Though no one knows whether it will be reached by peaceful means or through war or probably through their combination. For example, territorial disputes and issues of status were settled in the result of the armed conflict in former Yugoslavia', he said.
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