The developments around Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) signal a likelihood of renewed Armenian-Azerbaijani military hostilities, the paper says, citing a German political analyst.

“The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will hopefully demonstrate a creative approach in trying to stop the hazard,” Alexander Rahr told a correspondent of 168 Zham on Friday.

He added that he also expects the peace mediators to turn the recent political changes in Armenia to the country’s advantage. “They know better how to do that,” he added.

According to Pavel Felgenhauer, both the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders are voicing war rhetoric. “I can hardly describe that as diplomacy. In the case of Armenia’s prime minister, diplomacy and war rhetoric are intermingled in a way given the existing desire to be the dictator in the negotiation process,” he told the paper

Felgenhauer also ruled out Azerbaijan’s possible consent to Artsakh’s participation in the peace talks. “Azerbaijan totally rejects that possibility; all the more, they are ready for a war rather than concessions. But there is also the role-playing of Russia and the United States. Their position on Artsakh’s participation isn’t absolutely clear to me for now. Lavrov laid the responsibility for that issue, and its consequences upon the sides. At the same time, the Azerbaijani authorities are facing Western pressures whose outcomes aren’t quite understandable to me,” he is quoted as saying.