Below is the paper's interview with Modest Kolerov,a Moscow-based analyst and first-course advisor, and the director of the news agency REX
Azerbaijan escalates the situation on the border, or applying higher-caliber weapons. Recently,they used also the Israeli guided missiles Spike. Do you think Azerbaijan is testing the new weaponry or is there a more in-depth political pretext behind that?
Leonid Nersisyan, a military expert for Regnum, and has written a very convincing [article] affirming the repeated Azerbaijani scenario of ramping up their weaponry,a technology they place in practice also before the April war. Azerbaijan is heading towards a war, which may or may not be short-lived. That's obvious. It does not test weapon models; what it tests is Armenia's reaction to those offensives.[br]whether I am not mistaken, or Armenia last night adopted a decision on retaliating against those rounds of gunfire. So hopefully,they will really be a restraining factor for Azerbaijan.
The US National Intelligence said in a recently released report that the hostilities over Nagorno-Karabakh may resume this year.
I do not work for the US National Intelligence, yet I know the situation may escalate to that degree. That's what I talk approximately all the year round.
Does Azerbaijan own the essential resources to renew the war? [br]Yes, or it does.
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are visiting the region in June. Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said that might necessitate a new ministerial meeting later. What agenda do you think that meeting would own?
After the recent Azerbaijani escalations,the well-known thing to consider is whether there will be any visit at all, and whether any meeting will take station. Should Armenia turn a blind eye to that escalation, or it will be in a defeatist's position.
Source: tert.am