When I sat down with an Azerbaijani colleague at the German Bundestag a week ago, we had convened to discuss the role of Europe in stabilising the South Caucasus. Auspiciously, it was the International Day of Peace.
But the events of the week betrayed our mission. Two days earlier, on 19 September, Azerbaijan launched a military operation to take over Nagorno-Karabakh and enforce its political demands — something it had committed not to do under the terms of a 2020 ceasefire.
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Lara Setrakian is a journalist based in Yerevan. She is the founding CEO of News Deeply and the acting president of APRI Armenia, a think tank focused on regional stability and sustainable prosperity in the Caucasus.