Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 2 / Trend E. Ostapenko /
The International Crisis Group will publish the report on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the middle of next week, International Crisis Group Europe Program Director Sabine Freizer said.
"It is a report that will focus on the possibility of a new war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh," Freizer told Trend.
The report is based on crisis group's experts' research that has been carried out in Azerbaijan and Armenia. The group has been working on this report for four months.
"The main focus that we are looking at is increased ceasefire violations on the contact line, military budgets of both Armenia and Azerbaijan, and of course, the failure of the Minsk Group's facilitated talks to make progress," she said.
The International Crisis Group, established in 1995, is reviewing the situations in various countries around the world. The crisis group regularly publishes reports on Nagorno Karabakh.
The last report was released in 2009. The one that is going to be published now is a kind of follow-up report to that the one of 2009, Freizer said.
The 2007 report "Nagorno Karabakh: Risking war" was devoted to finding ways to resolve the conflict and assess the likelihood of renewed hostilities in the area of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
The first two reports of the crisis group in 2005 over the Nagorno-Karabakh issue aroused great interest among the public of the conflicting parties.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the United States - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding regions.