Former envoy to NATO: U.S. should step up efforts on Garabagh
The U.S. should intensify efforts to resolve the dispute over
Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh region, which is disputed by Armenia and
Azerbaijan, said Kurt Volker, U.S. ambassador to NATO from July
2008 to May 2009, the managing director of the Center on
Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University and a senior
adviser at the Atlantic Council of the United States.
"This is an issue on which Russia, the United States and Europe
have been working together well for years, and the outlines of a
possible settlement have long been on the table," Volker said in an
interview with The Washington Post.
He said that an Azerbaijani-Armenian settlement could spur travel,
trade, investment and economic prosperity in the region.
A ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's Minsk group, led by Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, should
be convened to renew pressure toward a settlement, Volker believes.
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