Arthur G Martirosyan - Negotiations | Point Zero | Western Interests | Israel Gaza Conflict | Ep 299 - Dec 17, 2023

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Topics This Week

The past couple of weeks we’ve seen developments in Armenia’s interactions with Azerbaijan, Russia, the US, Turkey or the EU.

For example:

Between Armenia and Russia, there’s a full on war of words, and even some actual actions afoot. For example the customs issues at the Lars checkpoint; the claims and counter-claims about Russian TV violations of intergovernmental agreements for retransmission in Armenia; the threats of exiting the CSTO and the warnings from Russia about it; etc.
With Azerbaijan, there was the exchange of prisoners; Armenia’s call to return to negotiations in the west; to pull back armed forces from the borders; and for the millionth time reaffirming its commitment to opening transportation links for Turkish-Azeri use. All of which seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
On the EU front, they’re expanding their monitoring mission in Armenia, but Charles Michel has suddenly become unable to say “Nagorno-Karabakh”, he just Artsakh “that region of Azerbaijan”.
Meanwhile the US and Turkey play good cop bad cop with Armenia. Turkey pushes Armenia to open the “Zangezur corridor”, while the US tries to make sure Russia and Iran don’t control whatever Turkish corridor connects the Turanic world, and puts it in terms of protecting Armenia.

Should we look at these from the perspective of crisis management and negotiation tactics?

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Negotiations. Strategy, Prisoner Exchange, “Point Zero”. The West’s Interests. Israel-Gaza Conflict.