YEREVAN. – Russian-Turkish rapprochement overall is a good thing for the South Caucasus and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular, editor of Caucasus Survey Laurence Broers told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
“It stems the misleading recasting of the conflict as a proxy war, eases pressures on Azerbaijan as a state with important relationships with both Russia and Turkey, and releases Armenia from the threat of confrontation between its main partner/patron and its second largest neighbor,” Mr. Broers said in an e-mail interview.
He believes that Russia-Turkey rapprochement clears the way for infrastructural development, most of it bypassing Armenia of course, but still embedding a dynamic of multiple regional stakeholders interested in stability.
“In fact, the more the Russian-Turkish-...
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