Ukraine and Karabakh: Crisis, opportunity and cold reason

By Orkhan Amashov The war in Ukraine has been a massive test for Azerbaijan’s foreign policy, which has long been contingent on the principle of pursuing the line of balancing conflicting geopolitical considerations in such a way that would not militate against its core priority, the post-conflict normalisation in Karabakh, and would not compromise its sense of international justice. The recent crisis has invoked a vital necessity of rightly calibrating between “practically sensible” and “normatively right”. The Moscow declaration, signed at a very sensitive juncture, when Russia was almost fr…

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