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Westminster’s controversial Karabakh inquiry threatens fragile Armenia Azerbaijan peace

In diplomacy, words matter. So do names. When a British legal body announced an inquiry into the alleged destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in “Nagorno-Karabakh”, the terminology alone was enough to trigger protest in Baku. Azerbaijan insists that no such administrative unit exists. Garabagh, it argues, is sovereign Azerbaijani territory, recognised as such by the United Kingdom and the wider international community. To frame an investigation under a name associated with a defunct separatist entity is, in this view, not a technical slip but a political statement.