U.S. Helsinki Commission to hold briefing on conflicts in Caucasus
Baku, December 2 (AZERTAC). The U.S. Helsinki Commission will hold a special hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh and other unresolved conflicts next week.
The hearing on “Conflicts in the Caucasus: Prospects for Resolution” will take place on December 7, with participation of well-known 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 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe`s (OSCE) long mediation in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, the results have been disappointing,” the organizers say.
This Helsinki Commission briefing will examine where these conflicts stand today; what factors impede a settlement; whether the resumption of armed hostilities is a serious threat; whether changes in the negotiating format might yield a better outcome; and what, if anything, could the United States do to facilitate a resolution.
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