How long will the protest on Lachin road last?

The protest action on Lachin Road is approaching its first month. Although the Armenian authorities, Armenian separatists and the Armenian lobby in the world tried with all their might to put pressure on Azerbaijan by various state and international organizations due to the action on the road, they did not get results, even though they spread misinformation such as "the road is closed", "our patients are left without medicine", "Armenians of Karabakh are hungry". The efforts of French political circles against Azerbaijan did not work either.

The main goal of the action is to enable monitoring in occupied gold and copper deposits. This has not been achieved. In such a case, the question "how long will the action last" has become relevant. This question has several answer options:

First option: Armenian separatists in Karabakh are forced to monitor Azerbaijani officials in gold and copper deposits. In this case, Azerbaijani officials monitor the deposits and the protest on the road is stopped. However, the problem will not end with monitoring, the subject of state control of the fields and the obtained income will become relevant.

Second option: Armenian separatists in Karabakh do not allow the monitoring of Azerbaijani officials, and the protest continues indefinitely.

Third option: The goal of Azerbaijan is not only the monitoring of deposits. Another goal is to take control of the road connecting Armenia and Karabakh. After a while, if the environmentalists' protest is stopped, instead of the activists, the Azerbaijani military will set up a post on that part of the road and start checking the vehicles entering and leaving Karabakh. This does not contradict the statement of November 9, 2020, the road is not closed, it is controlled within the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan.

"Atlas" Research Center