More of the same in Karabakh?

Eurasianet has an Insight on the Karabakh conflict.

As they look back at 2004, both Armenia and Azerbaijan are claiming that fresh hope now exists for a permanent peace agreement on the status of the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet for all the official optimism, few concrete results exist to point to anything but more of the same impasse.

Despite several meetings in 2004 between both presidents and their foreign ministers, only small steps have been made toward resolving the conflict. Despite secrecy regarding the details of these talks, Armenian officials state that they follow the Key West Principles.

The so-called Key West principles reportedly provided for the accession of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in exchange for Azerbaijan gaining unfettered access to the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, separated from Azerbaijan by Armenia. No further progress has been made on this deal, although Armenian officials state that both sides are close to a modified version of these principles.

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Posted by Matt on January 11, 2005 | TrackBack | Email to a friend