DAILY TELEGRAPH: STAKES IN KARABAKH ARE HIGH

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
23.11.2009 16:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In a recent article titled Nagorno-Karabakh:
danger in the Caucasus, British Daily Telegraph touches on recent
meeting between Armenian and Azeri President, noting particularly
that conflict in Karabakh "has slid from public consciousness, at
least in the West, as one of those intractable problems that bedevil
the Caucasus. That neglect, however, has not deterred diplomacy".

The author states that "the future of Nagorno-Karabakh carries serious
implications for Turkey’s role in the Caucasus, and, by extension,
its bid for EU membership, for the supply of oil and gas to the West."

"Finding a solution, based on Armenia’s ceding of territory in exchange
for an eventual referendum on the enclave’s status, is daunting. But
the stakes, in an area of great strategic importance, are high,"
the newspaper reports.