Previous fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2017. The long-running conflict risks dragging in Russia and Turkey, with grave geopolitical repercussions for the entire region (Photo: nkrmil.am)

Why did the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process just fail?

EU & the World

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by Elkhan Nuriyev, Leipzig,

The ongoing escalation of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is a most serious and significant one - just not surprising at all.

This is mainly due to the lack of tangible progress in the OSCE Minsk Group-led peace talks between the two sides, which have been held since 1994.

The absence of substantive negotiations over de-occupation of Azerbaijani territories, return of internally-displaced persons to the regions of their or...

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Dr Elkhan Nuriyev is an Eastern Europe-Global Area fellow at Leipzig University.

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Previous fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2017. The long-running conflict risks dragging in Russia and Turkey, with grave geopolitical repercussions for the entire region (Photo: nkrmil.am)