Dispute in the South Caucasus runs hot again

The new prime minister, Nicol Pashinyan, asserted the occupied territories to be an integral part of Armenia proper. No Armenian politician had said that since the war in the early 1990s.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, earlier this year, denounced the Madrid principles, which every other Armenian government since then had adopted as the basis for negotiations with Azerbaijan.Photograph courtesy of the World Economic Forum

Opinion

BY ROBERT M. CUTLER

October 8, 2020

Armenia is fighting with Azerbaijan again, and this time. it’s serious. In the South Caucasus, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, just to the south of Russia and sandwiched against Iran and Turkey, Armenia has been occu...

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