YEREVAN, May 7. /Mediamax/. “We believe the pivot of Caucasian geopolitics for Turkey should be Armenia,” analyst of the RAND Corporation, one of the leading American experts in Turkey and Iran Graham E. Fuller writes in “Grand Geopolitics for a New Turkey” article.
“Armenia today is almost completely hostage to Russia, since it fears “encirclement by Turks” in both Turkey and Azerbaijan, and depends on Moscow for its defense needs against these states,” he says. “We strongly advocate priority on improvement of ties with Yerevan which will lessen Armenian anxieties, offer them alternative access to Europe, and improve chances for settlement of the Karabakh issue,” the American analyst notes. In that case, according to him, Armenia will be less willing to serve as Russia’s instrument in the Transcaucasus.
RAND Corporation is one of the oldest U.S. think-tanks and often carries out researches on the order of Pentagon. –0–
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