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Border readjustment in Tavush, what’s next?

On April 17, 2024, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at a meeting with the residents of Kirants village in the Tavush region, said that for the past 30 years, the residents have lived “in the conditions of lawlessness, and the time has come to put an end to this, to establish a rule of law” in the region. The PM added: “Our idea is for you not to say Azerbaijan is 50 meters away, but to say, wow, it is good that Azerbaijan is 50 meters away. We will trade there. We will build the

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Yeghia Tashjian

Yeghia Tashjian is the Issam Fares Institute Public Policy and International Affairs-American University of Beirut’s Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from the American University of Beirut and completed the "Strategic Leadership in Global Societal Security Program" at the Swedish Defense University in 2022. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Haigazian University in 2013 and has worked in the university's Armenian Diaspora Research Center between 2016-2017. Yeghia's master’s thesis focused on China's geopolitical and energy security interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. Currently, Tashjian is engaged in research on the phenomenon of Turkish-Russian 'co-opetition' in the MENA+ Caucasus region and Russia's involvement in the International North-South Transport Corridor. He contributes to various local and regional newspapers, has presented various topics from minority rights to regional security issues, and is a part-time instructor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut.

3 Comments

  1. The final nail in the coffin…compliments of Pashinoglu… enjoy the “cafe” life for a few more years.. then the swift end will come… are we Christians? do we believe in the resurrection to come…if so then war can NOT be avoided.. but a traitor is at the head of the nation inspiring no one but the turks

  2. Good analysis as always. What do you see as the geographic and political basis of “territorial swaps”? I see references to the use of Soviet era maps in other reports. If those maps are invalid, because of decisions made in the 1920s under the influence of Stalin, which maps are valid? How can “mutual compromise” be made w/o the use of meaningful maps?

  3. If i were to buy a stock i would not invest in the Armenian Army, becuase the more land he gives away, the more my stocks would fall!

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