Shadow of history makes Karabakh solution elusive

Paris, Oct 9 (AFP/APP):When Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shared a platform in a rare encounter at February’s Munich Security Conference, they were both asked to give a historical overview of Nagorno-Karabakh. It did not end well. “In order to talk about how to resolve the conflict first we need to go back and look at the issue of history,” declared Aliyev, arguing it is “historical truth” that Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan. “I would ask President Aliyev not to go too far into history,” retorted Pashinyan, asserting that the region only became part of … Continue reading Shadow of history makes Karabakh solution elusive