Nagorno-Karabakh, the interminable conflict in the Caucasus

A member of Russian peacekeeping troops in Dadivank, an Armenian monastery.

Karabakh region, Kalbajar district, November 15, 2020. REUTERS - STRINGER

By: Daniel Desesquelle

3 min

In the Caucasus, following a six-week blitzkrieg war, Azerbaijan regained control of the districts it had lost in a previous conflict with Armenia in the early 1990s.

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The existence of Nagorny Karabakh, an Armenian enclave on Azeri soil is not questioned, but the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh will no longer be linked to Armenia except by a narrow corridor secured by the Russian army, in end of a ceasefire agreement initiated by Vladimir Putin.

Azerbaijan and Russia are the big winners of this war, Baku recovers the lost territories, thirty years ago, while Moscow confirms its primacy in the Caucasus. 

Turkey can also rejoice.

A corridor will be built between Turkey and Azerbaijan which will link the two countries for the first time.   

As for Armenia, it is anesthetized by the defeat it did not see coming, at the end of the last episode of this interminable conflict.

With: 

- Thorniké Gordadzé,

professor of Political Science at

Sciences-Po

Paris, former Minister of European Integration in Georgia.

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More info: here

- Didier Billion

, Deputy Director of

IRIS

(Institute of International and Strategic Relations).

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More info: here

- Régis Genté,

regional correspondent for

RFI in the Caucasus

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Online from Tbilisi.

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His Twitter account: here.

With

Laurence Habay

from

Courrier international

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