In an article for the EUobserver, APRI Armenia President Lara Setrakian wrote about Azerbaijan’s assault on Nagorno-Karabakh and its overall policy of blockade and coercion, leading to the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population. This policy, she writes, has shattered the hope that there is a good-faith negotiating partner in Baku. For the time being, Azerbaijan’s calculation is that it is best off waging war to get what it wants, then signing a ceasefire deal that codifies its gains. It is a strategy of constant escalation.
Armenians and Azerbaijanis should have a dynamic that is set by dialogue and genuine diplomacy—not the threat and use of force, with one party constantly threatening to eat the other for lunch.
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