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Day: April 28, 2015

How the West plans to prevent the SCO from mediating in Nagorno-Karabakh

28/04/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 5 comments

The first two parts of this series explained why the OSCE Minsk Group is inadequate for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and why the SCO is the only realistic alternative for doing so. This final piece will look at how the US intends to stop that from happening, and what Azerbaijan […]

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SCO will be the new framework for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

28/04/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 1 comment

Azerbaijan and Armenia are slated to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as observer members during the group’s meeting this July, according to SCO General Secretary Dmitry Mezentsev. This gives Baku a fortuitous chance to finally move past the failed OSCE Minsk Group format and into a new framework that would […]

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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: the OSCE Minsk Group is obsolete

28/04/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 5 comments

The official framework for dealing with the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is the OSCE Minsk Group, but given its ineffectiveness in making concrete progress in the past two decades, it appears as though it’s time of relevance has passed. Clearly, the old method of dealing with the crisis simply hasn’t worked, and […]

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