Ex Director of FIS of Russia: New war in Karabakh, undoubtedly will end with annihilation of Armenia and Azerbaijan
ArmInfo. A new war in Karabakh undoubtedly will end with annihilation of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Ex Director of Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, Ex deputy head of MFA of Russia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Army General Vyacheslav Trubnikov express such an opinion in an interview to ArmInfo.
"In your region with is militarized extremely, there will be a war of annihilation, without winners. And there is nothing to conquer. It would be necessary to destroy people physically. It will be necessary to destroy nation, religion and culture. And fortunately it is impossible in 21st century", he noted.
Commenting on the possibility and expediency of involvement, which has powerful interests in all three countries participating in the conflict and a broad border with Artsakh of Iran in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, the army general noted that the format of the Minsk Group for resolving this problem is quite sufficient.
"Anyways, this format is able not to let the conflict grow into the scale of international one. There are enough of intermediaries there. In an individual context Russia, USA, France play the most important role in the contacts on the highest level", the general summarized.