... armed conflict, may amount to erga omnes crimes (leave alone manifest violation of long-standing ceasefire agreement) under the relevant international treaties, and most prominently the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court. Although neither Armenia, nor Azerbaijan or Nagorno-Karabakh are members to ICC, referring the situation to the Court may become a necessary element in a future resolution package.
To re-launch the peace process
It will perhaps be premature to claim that the Four Day War left the parties in, what ...
... the Central Asian ones, was a far cry from Moscow’s and Yerevan’s position.
Despite its undisguised pro-Turkish leanings, Azerbaijan most likely will be reluctant to openly support Turkey in the latter’s confrontation with Russia, Azerbaijan seems unlikely to resume large-scale hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh today.
Thus, Armenia appeared to be virtually the only CSTO country to publicly support the position of Russia against Turkey. This notwithstanding, Yerevan is not at all interested in a further escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Ankara. Any open confrontation ...
... consideration should be given to extending the format of negotiations and including representatives of the NKR in them. Such a trilateral format did exist in 1994-1997, but then it was decided to abandon it for various reasons. The trilateral format (Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijan-Armenia) established within the framework of the Russian-American Dartmouth Conference on Nagorno Karabakh (the second negotiation process at the level of top experts) was maintained since its establishment in 2001 until the end in 2012.
Apparently, there ...
... was later
acquired
by Armenian-born billionaire Samvel Karapetian from Russia. The situation has stabilized, but the bad taste still lingers, among other things, due to band-aid-like solutions designed to revive the positive imagine of Russia among Armenian society (e.g. the dynamics of military-technical cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan and Moscow's role in maintaining the ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh).
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Sergei Markedonov:
Russia – Learning from Armenia
Electric Maydan per se was not a coordinated anti-Russian action, but spontaneously highlighted many problems reflecting perceptions of and dissatisfaction ...
... been an official member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)
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. Third, Moscow plays a very important role in the process of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement. Western diplomats and experts more often criticize Russia for “freezing” rather than seeking to solve this long-festering conflict
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. We should bear in mind, however, that however passive Russia may be, neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia, which are directly involved in the ethno-political confrontation, have demonstrated any inclination to make compromises ...
... high level, if not mounting.
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Alexander Krylov:
Azerbaijan–Armenia: heat is getting stronger
At the same time, it is indicative that the armed stand-off is taking place not only along the contact line around Nagorno-Karabakh, but on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan too. As a result, the village of Choratan of Armenia’s Tavush province was shelled twice on April 6, 2015, and on April 5, 2015, Armenian forces fired from the village of Paravakar in the same province at Azerbaijani positions in the ...
