To avoid Armenia-Azerbaijan war, US needs to lead diplomatic initiative - Svante Cornell

  07 April 2016    Read: 719
To avoid Armenia-Azerbaijan war, US needs to lead diplomatic initiative - Svante Cornell
If the US wants to avoid a major war in the Caucasus, it needs to take the lead in a serious diplomatic initiative to engage both Armenia and Azerbaijan in talks over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Svante Cornell, director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program of the John Hopkins University, wrote in his article in The Wall Street Journal.
That can only happen if Washington accepts that the Caucasus is part of the long arc of conflict ranging from Ukraine to Syria, and that the interests of the US are fundamentally opposed to those of Russia, according to Cornell.

On the night of April 2, 2016, all the frontier positions of Azerbaijan were subjected to heavy fire from the Armenian side, which used large-caliber weapons, mortars and grenade launchers. The armed clashes resulted in deaths and injuries among the Azerbaijani population. Azerbaijan responded with a counter-attack, which led to liberation of several strategic heights and settlements.

Military operations were stopped on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies on Apr. 5 at 12:00 (UTC/GMT + 4 hours) with the consent of the sides, Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry earlier said. Ignoring the agreement, the Armenian side again started violating the ceasefire.

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