Garnik Davtyan: The goal of Azerbaijan’s accelerated aggression is to seize new territories from Armenia

Expert on Azerbaijani studies Garnik Davtyan believes that the latest threat from the Azerbaijani President to Armenia on the eve of the Armenian-Azerbaijani talks in Berlin was aimed at exerting pressure on the Armenian side.

“Azerbaijan has a tendency towards aggression, which encourages pressure on Armenia, in particular, claims to new territories and the successful signing of new documents, which will become a future bargaining chip for Azerbaijan.

Aliyev’s statement that ‘the only way for Armenia is to accept all the conditions of Azerbaijan’, before today’s meeting of foreign ministers, was a political tactic of speaking from a dictating position. This helps Azerbaijan, which understands today’s non-Armenian, cowardly, and humiliated status of Armenia amid Azerbaijani propaganda, get the most of it both in terms of political and territorial successes,” Garnik Davtyan told Alpha News.

On February 28, before the start of the Armenian-Azerbaijani talks in Berlin, the National Security Service confirmed that the Azerbaijani who crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line at dawn was neutralized.

Garnik Davtyan did not exclude that Azerbaijan chose such tactics before the talks not only to test the combat readiness of the Armenian armed forces but also to help Nikol Pashinyan in the matter of the return of prisoners.

“It is being discussed on Azerbaijani social media that such border crossings cannot be accidental since the Azerbaijanis seriously control the entire length of the occupied territories of Artsakh and the borders of Armenia.

There are other allegations that there was a dispute, but I am inclined to think that such border violations may be associated with an exchange of prisoners, which, naturally, will to some extent contribute to increasing Pashinyan’s rating. This, of course, is an unlikely option, but it will help the Armenian side have more favorable political conditions for Pashinyan,” the expert noted.