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    PAUL GOBLE: AALAND ISLANDS ARRANGEMENT WON'T WORK FOR NAGORNO KARABAKH

    Azeri Press Agency
    Feb 13 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Washington. Tamara Grigoryeva-APA. American political researcher
    Paul Goble posted an article on "Window on Eurasia" website on Aaland
    Islands Arrangement and its application to the resolution of Nagorno
    Karabakh problem, APA reports.

    Paul Goble mentions that almost since the Karabakh conflict began two
    decades ago, outside observers have suggested that the arrangements
    the League of Nations made for the Aaland Islands in the 1920s could
    serve as a model for the peaceful resolution of the dispute between
    Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    "It maintained the territorial integrity of Finland while providing
    almost unlimited autonomy to the Swedish-speaking population of this
    archipelago," he writes.

    Recalling the history of the Aaland Islands issue Paul Goble
    underlines some positive sides of the process: "Each conflict is
    unique and conflicts of Nagorno Karabakh and Aaland Islands have
    differences. First, they are islands and so have a tradition of
    being relatively isolated. Second, the population has long been
    mono-cultural and mono-linguistic. If Karabakh is mono-ethnic now,
    it is so only because of the flight of most Azerbaijanis because of
    the fighting. And Aaland conflict did not lead to large number of
    dead as in Nagorno Karabakh," the article says.
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