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Analyst Cory Welt: The United States should call for Yerevan to pursue a withdrawal from Azerbaijani territories in parallel with normalization with Turkey

28 April 2010 08:29 (UTC +04:00)

According to him, if Washington had pushed the AKP, the US might have understood that tackling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was still a precursor to regional stability, not a potential byproduct of it.
Mr. Welt believes that, the United States should clearly reconsider its approach to Armenia and join Turkey in calling for Yerevan to pursue a partial withdrawal from Azerbaijani territories in parallel with normalization with Turkey:
â€œAt this point, however, it is extremely unlikely that it will be successful in the short-term, since the Armenian government was encouraged to stake its foreign policy reputation on achieving rapprochement with Turkey with no preconditionsâ€.
In the meantime, he mentioned that, the United States should turn to repairing its damaged relationship with Azerbaijan while encouraging Turkey and Armenia to find less dramatic and more incremental ways to move forward on normalization.