As Putin pulls Azerbaijan and Armenia away from the West, he is laying the foundation for future crises, while Washington watches, Matthew Bryza, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, was U.S. mediator of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from 2006 to 2009 and U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2010 to 2011, writes in the Washington Post.
“On April 1, an obscure conflict in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno- Karabakh nearly devolved back into full-scale war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Transatlantic leaders called for an end to the violence and for redoubled efforts to settle the underlying political conflict but did little else. …read more
Source: Arminfo
