What is Armenia trying to obtain by escalating tensions on the border?

Baku/16.11.21/Turan: The Armenian armed forces committed large-scale provocations against Azerbaijan in the Kelbajar and Lachin regions of the state border, the Ministry of Defense said.

Placing up to their border positions located in the Basarkechar and Garakil regions, additional forces, units of the Armenian Armed Forces attacked the posts of the Azerbaijani army in the Kelbajar and Lachin regions.

The enemy fired at the positions of the Azerbaijani army from small arms of various calibers and grenades, damaging the posts. As a result, according to preliminary information, two servicemen of the Azerbaijani army were injured.

Also, units of the Armenian Armed Forces subjected to intensive shelling of the positions of the Azerbaijani army, located in several villages of the Kelbajar, Gadabay, Tovuz and Agstafa regions, from small arms of various calibers, reported  the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. According to the report, in order to suppress the activity of the enemy, the units of the Azerbaijani army took adequate retaliatory measures.  Currently, the operational situation is under the control of our units.

What's happening? What is Armenia trying to achieve?

Political observer Oktay Gasimov commented on the events on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border in the "Difficult issue" program.

According to him, the events taking place on the border with Azerbaijan and Armenia were predictable. Despite the victory of the party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the early elections to the Parliament of Armenia, the revanchist forces, of which there are a lot in the power structures and especially in the army, have not disappeared anywhere.

“Their dominance does not allow Pashinyan to normalize the socio-political situation in Armenia. They continue to put pressure on Pashinyan,” Gasimov stressed.

According to the expert, the Prime Minister's indecision in the implementation of the trilateral Statement of November 9 led to the fact that the forces rallied around the Karabakh clan, as well as other revanchist forces, perked up and closer to the anniversary of the end of the 44-day war (sometime in October ), announced the beginning of the struggle to remove Pashinyan and his team from power. Perhaps what is happening at the border is the work of their hands.

Gasimov suggested that another reason for the increase in tension is Armenia's desire to gain time to gather strength and return to its previous state. In addition, Yerevan considers the conditions of the trilateral statement too difficult and thus tries to soften them.

The political scientist also noted that having lost the war, Armenia is interested in attracting other actors to the process. “We see this on the example of Yerevan’s attempts to involve the OSCE Minsk Group in the negotiations and bring to the agenda the issue of the status of a quasi-state in Karabakh,” he noted. –0—