By Regis Gente
Posted 5 hours ago, updated 5 hours ago
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Prague on October 6. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
GREAT DECRYPTION – Russian mediation had stopped the conflict in autumn 2020, and the march towards peace seemed possible in this part of the Caucasus.
In Tbilisi
Almost two years after its victory in the second war over Nagorno-Karabakh (an Armenian-populated region it lost control of in 1994), Azerbaijan attacked Armenia again in mid-September. This time on the international border of these two Caucasian republics, no longer around the secession region. Result: more than 210 dead on the Armenian side and 80 on the Azerbaijani side. And yet, since the first Nagorno-Karabakh war (1988-1994, won by the Armenian side), we have never been so close to a real peace deal.
• Why this Azerbaijani attack on Armenian territory on September 13-14?
The deadly attack of September 13-14 cannot be understood without reference to the 44-day war in autumn 2020, which Azerbaijan won, and the peace talks being held under the aegis of the EU. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who two years ago during Vladimir Putin’s mediation, accepted certain compromises, such as renouncing the military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh…
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