Nexus of Eurasia Oil and Trade Links Being Held Hostage By Armenia

摘要

One of the major keys to opening the flow of Central Asian and Caucasus oil and overland trade with Europe has been the question of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, which has blocked pipeline links as well as political interaction between the two regions. The February 10-11, 2006, Paris Summit of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan might have proven to be a turning point in the so-far slow and torturous progress toward resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.