Why We Should Care About Armenia?

25/02/2021 33 min

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World Unfiltered

Timestamps

1. Why should the World care about Armenia? 2.32-4.32

2. What are the immediate issue for Armenia? The status of Nagorno Karabakh and conflict with Azerbaijan? A post-revolutionary government trying to regain legitimacy?  Economic issues? 4.35-9.26

3. If you're a government advisor, do you make Nagorno Karabakh your headline issue?  Or do you actually try to put it to the side and focus on the pandemic and economic recovery? 9.30-11.15

4. Why has it not possible to get an accommodation over Nagorno Karabakh after more than 30 years? 11.20-14.16

5. Why did Prime Minister Pashinyan take such a hard line on Nagorno Karabakh? 14.20-16.35

6. Where do you go now with Nagorno Karabakh? Concentrate on Russia as the broker of the conflict? Confidence  building measures such as transport links? Or a return to the Minsk process headed by Russia-France-US? 16.45-19.58

7. Do you sense the Biden Administration will return  to the lead in the Minsk process alongside the Russians? 20.23-21.54

8. Will Azerbaijan welcome back the Americans? 22.00-23.57

9. Is it possible for Armenia to set aside cultural dynamics and recent history for a rapprochement with Turkey? 24.00-27.01

10. Can civil society leaks reaching across Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey as an alternative to the conflict of recent decades? 27.05-29.21

11. Is there a  way out this year of erosion and stalemate for the government and, more importantly, for Armenians? 29.30