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Azerbaijan is eager to show it has a significant role in the region and is hopeful to extort concessions from the West, Candidate of Historical Sciences Edgar Hovhannisyan said in a news conference.

Azerbaijan is aimed to distract the attention of the West from the escalating violations of human rights in the country, as well as to secure the continuation of heritage of the Aliyev family.

“The West bares all it not to preserve peace, but because of oil revenues,” said the expert.

The expert said Azerbaijan’s armament is not only conditioned by the unsettled factor of the NK conflict. “Azerbaijan shares disputes with all its neighbors, it is in conflicts not only with Armenia and Artsakh, but with Iran, Georgia, Turkmenistan and even with Russia, thus the military settlement of the conflict is not a favorable solution for them,” said E Hovhannisyan.

Referring to the armed incidents along the borders with Armenia and Artsakh, the expert said they are mainly conditioned by the visits of U.S. Secretary of State Mrs Clinton and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office E. Gilmore. Expert underlines that the two senior officials highlighted the NK conflict during their meetings.