YEREVAN, April 16. /Mediamax/. “U.S. Administration officials say the Nagorno-Karabakh talks provided a chance for the Bush and Putin governments to work together cooperatively after months of tension over spies and arms-control issues”, The Washington Post writes today in the editorial “Brokering Regional Conflicts”.
Stressing that the interest of the U. S. administration in the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations is called forth first of all by oil interests and willingness to construct a pipeline without passing through Russia or Iran, The Washington Post notes at the same time that the U.S. engagement in this process would be worthwhile even if “oil were not involved”.
“A settlement would help stabilize the volatile and strategic Caucasus region and open needy pro-Western countries such as Armenia and Georgia to trade and investment”, the American paper stresses. –0–
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