US Helsinki Commission to mull Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

The US Helsinki Commission will hold a special hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh and other unresolved conflicts next week.

A hearing on “Conflicts in the Caucasus: Prospects for Resolution” will take place on Dec.7, with participation well-known Washington analysts, officials, Senators, as well as three key panelists - Tom de Waal, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution and Wayne Merry, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.

“Twenty years after the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the unresolved conflicts in the Caucasus remain one of its most problematic legacies. Despite the OSCE’s long mediation in the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the results have been disappointing”, says the organizers. “After the 2008 Russia-Georgia war and Moscow’s subsequent recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the prospects for settling those conflicts seem more remote than ever”.


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