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July 16 2010
Nagorno-Karabakh deal near? Depends on who you ask
Submitted by Sandy Smith on 2010-07-16
As the foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meet in the Kazakh capital of Almaty to
discuss regional security matters, the most interesting item on the
agenda has nothing to do with the meeting. Instead, it has to do with
the long-running dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the
Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two countries may meet during the
conference to settle the issue. Or not.
Reports in the Turkish press say that the Armenian foreign minister,
Edward Nalbandian, will meet with his Turkish and Azerbaijani
counterparts in Almaty to discuss an Armenian withdrawal from the
Azeri provinces of Lachin and Kelbajar. However, a leading Armendian
news source says that no meetings between Nalbandian and Turkey's
foreign minister, Ahmet Davuto?Ä?lu have been agreed upon during the
OSCE conference.
Turkey has been pressing to get Armenia and Azerbaijan to iron our
their dispute as a stepping stone to normalizing Armenian-Turkish
relations. The Armenians have resisted Turkish efffort to mediate on
the grounds that the Turks are unwilling to accommodate Armenian
concerns. In the particular instance, Lachin and Kelbajar provide the
only land conection between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority
Armenian region within Azerbaijan that Armenia took control of in the
early 1990s.
Azerbaijan had objected to normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations
as long as the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute remains unsettled. Turkey has
since tied normalization to a settlement of the dispute as well.
Armenia is concerned that both countries would prefer a settlement
that does not take into account Armenia's interest in the region's
Armenian majority.
From: A. Papazian
July 16 2010
Nagorno-Karabakh deal near? Depends on who you ask
Submitted by Sandy Smith on 2010-07-16
As the foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meet in the Kazakh capital of Almaty to
discuss regional security matters, the most interesting item on the
agenda has nothing to do with the meeting. Instead, it has to do with
the long-running dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the
Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two countries may meet during the
conference to settle the issue. Or not.
Reports in the Turkish press say that the Armenian foreign minister,
Edward Nalbandian, will meet with his Turkish and Azerbaijani
counterparts in Almaty to discuss an Armenian withdrawal from the
Azeri provinces of Lachin and Kelbajar. However, a leading Armendian
news source says that no meetings between Nalbandian and Turkey's
foreign minister, Ahmet Davuto?Ä?lu have been agreed upon during the
OSCE conference.
Turkey has been pressing to get Armenia and Azerbaijan to iron our
their dispute as a stepping stone to normalizing Armenian-Turkish
relations. The Armenians have resisted Turkish efffort to mediate on
the grounds that the Turks are unwilling to accommodate Armenian
concerns. In the particular instance, Lachin and Kelbajar provide the
only land conection between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority
Armenian region within Azerbaijan that Armenia took control of in the
early 1990s.
Azerbaijan had objected to normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations
as long as the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute remains unsettled. Turkey has
since tied normalization to a settlement of the dispute as well.
Armenia is concerned that both countries would prefer a settlement
that does not take into account Armenia's interest in the region's
Armenian majority.
From: A. Papazian