The Armenian authorities have long realized that with the current balance of forces shifting towards Azerbaijan and due to Baku’s growing geopolitical importance, it will be impossible in the foreseeable future to push Baku into making concessions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Armenia, who occupied Azerbaijani lands and carried out ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh, continues to demonstrate a lack of desire to negotiate on the future fate of the long-standing conflict, and instead, continues provocations on the front line.

Armenian rhetoric is a threat to large strategic international investors that are willing to work in the South Caucasus, Peter M. Tase, strategic adviser on international affairs and public diplomacy to governments, universities and corporations in Europe and the Americas told Trend.

Based on international energy agencies’ data, the Caspian Sea basin has one of the largest undeveloped hydrocarbon reserves in the world, which gives ground to consider the region as a hydrocarbon raw material base of world importance.

The inflation rate will not exceed five percent in Azerbaijan till the end of 2019, Elshad Mammadov, professor at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC), told Trend.

Although much was expected from the new government of Armenia in the face of the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power after a velvet revolution last year’s April, there was no tangible positive change in the process of resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The foreign policy format of trilateral cooperation among Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey, which was initiated by Baku, continued in the form of interaction among think tanks, Head of the Expert Council of the Baku Network, PhD Elkhan Alasgarov told Trend.

Presently, there is a situation in which the negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement may again come to a standstill. Following in the footsteps of the previous authorities, the new Armenian leadership is trying to preserve the long-term status quo in the occupied Azerbaijani lands.

Armenian armed forces units, using heavy machine guns, regularly violate the ceasefire in various directions of the frontline by shelling the positions of the Azerbaijan Army.

The military drills expected to take place in Armenia are certainly an open provocation to Azerbaijan, in particular, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Peter M. Tase, Scholar of International Affairs and author of various books on Azerbaijani Studies and Latin American Politics, said in an interview with Azernews.

The impossibility of advancing in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict shows the incapacity of the Armenian authorities, which ultimately can lead to a complete catastrophe of the Armenian state.

The protracted armed conflicts in Azerbaijani territories and Armenia’s occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh must end immediately, Peter M. Tase, Scholar of International Affairs and author of various books on Azerbaijani Studies and Latin American Politics, said in an interview with Azernews.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a hot point appeared in the South Caucasus after the collapse of the Soviet Union, remains unresolved, but the world community does not pay due attention to it.

Armenia’s stance on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict puts at risk the implementation of the Dushanbe agreement signed during a summit of CIS leaders, Malik Ayub Sumbal, Geopolitical Analyst, Commentator and Columnist, said in an interview with Azernews.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is incapable of managing his own country, Engin Ozer, Turkish political scientist, leading expert of "Ankara-Moscow" analytical network, said in an interview with Azernews.

Although there has been much expectations from the new government of Armenia that came to power after a velvet revolution last April, nothing new has changed in the process of solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The Armenian Prime Minister deceives the international community and misinforming the Council of Europe, Peter M. Tase, International Relations expert and a scholar of Transatlantic political and cultural dialogue said in an interview with Azernews.

Peace in the South Caucasus will be restored only if Armenia eventually makes the right decision and leaves the occupied Azerbaijani lands, Guram Markhuliya, President of the Caucasus International Center for the Study of Geohistory and Geopolitics, said in an interview with Azernews.

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a long process that requires tremendous efforts from both Azerbaijan and Armenia, Russian expert, President of the Center for Social and Political Studies ("Aspect") Georgy Fyodorov said in an interview with Azernews.

Lack of reaction of the OSCE Minsk Group to the statements of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue may have a negative impact on the negotiation process, a Russian expert in the field of foreign policy, defense and security Grigory Trofimchuk said in an interview with Azernews.

World Customs Organization (WCO) will create a forum to discuss new communication tools and channels, Secretary General of WCO Kunio Mikuriya said in an interview with Azernews.

The WCO Information Technology / Technology & Innovation Conference & Exhibition will be held in Baku from June 12-14, 2019, and is expected to attract around 1,000 participants from customs, the private sector, international organizations, academics and other key players, Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, said in an interview with Azernews.

Blockchain can help Customs combat financial crimes more effectively, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Kunio Mikuriya said in an interview with Azernews, Trend reports.

Discussions about climate action nowadays often focus on the largest past and current emitters. But, if one looks to the future, the biggest climate risks and opportunities lie in the more than 60 countries that have signed up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Azerbaijan has successfully implemented a Trusted-Trader program based on Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) program of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, WCO secretary-general, said in an interview with Azernews.