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John Stone wrote: http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/business/articles/eav090704.shtml It's a kindness to provide a synopsis, for future Google News readers and for those of us with intermittent Net links. Over the past month and a half, two souvenir currency notes from Nagorno-Karabakh have unleashed a storm of accusations and counter-accusations between Azerbaijani officials and representatives of the Armenian-controlled, self-styled republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. ... At present, the Karabakh peace talks are deadlocked. Azerbaijan is adamantly opposed to any political arrangement that leaves Karabakh outside its jurisdiction. Armenia, meanwhile, will not accept a settlement that restores any level of Azerbaijani control over the enclave. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav051204.shtml [Briefly, Nagorno-Karabakh was in Azerbaijan in Soviet times but had a population that was mostly Armenian.]. For Baku [capital of Azerbaijan], the two-dram and 10-dram notes represent an attempt by the enclave to burnish its image as an independent entity. "Despite the fact that this is not real money, we cannot accept this and we strongly oppose any attempt at creating this currency," said Fikret Pashayev, economic counselor at the Azerbaijani embassy in Washington, DC. "It could create further tension in the region." For Armenian leaders in the Karabakh capital of Stepanakert, the bank notes are seen as an attempt to reinforce their republic?s right to exist. "Of course, my government is involved in this," said Vardan Barseghian, the US representative of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. "We see this as a promotion for Nagorno-Karabakh." -- Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: |
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