... to the Middle East, as was the case during the conflict in Syria, Azerbaijan is limited to ensuring a military presence in the Caspian Sea without the equipment being able to be used in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Approach of the Members of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, USA, France)
Leonid Nersisyan:
Can the South Caucasus Conflicts Escalate into a Regional War?
Russia sells arms to the two protagonists and has the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) with Yerevan that ensures ...
... political activity that followed it is in stark contrast to the previously moribund peace process. The end result was a
meeting
between the Armenian president and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on 16 May in Vienna, under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group – the international body at the helm of the Nagorno Karabakh peace process.
This was the first meeting between the Presidents since 2014 and although no written agreement was produced it does mark an important milestone and a new ...
... are still continuing to
discover parts of Smerch and Grad rockets
in the Nagorno Karabakh battlefields, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled separate meetings in Brussels and Paris on May 31 and June 2 with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - the international mediators charged to actually shepherd the sides to a negotiated settlement. These gentlemen are now working to prepare “substantial negotiations”, to quote Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, between ...
... ceasefire agreements of 1994-1995 “open-ended” and does not deem it possible to replace them. Moscow’s stance on preserving the existing format of negotiations and agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh is shared by the other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, namely the United States and France. This gives grounds to suggest that, in contrast to Baku, international mediators do not think that the April hostilities have dramatically altered the existing military-political and diplomatic status ...
