Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt meets with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
Governor Kevin Stitt and a small delegation are in Azerbaijan this week, a small country east of Turkey and north of Iran, where Eastern Europe meets Western Asia.
Stitt s office said the trip, at the invitation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, is intended to strengthen strategic partnerships between Oklahoma and the nation. That partnership first began in 2002, when Oklahoma s National Guard participated in a Department of Defense program linking the Guard with Azerbaijan s military.
This trip marks the start of a new agreement between Oklahoma State University and Azerbaijan state Agricultural University to develop joint academic and exchange programs.
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“First of all, we would like to emphasize that a ceasefire is being ensured in the region, based on a joint statement signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on November 10, 2020. Russian peacekeeping forces are carrying out a peacekeeping mission to ensure a ceasefire. We do not see any role of
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What’s new? A Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended a six-week war in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan regained most of the territory it lost to Armenian forces in the first war, which ended in 1994. Russian peacekeepers have deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Why does it matter? Decades of failed negotiations after the first Nagorno-Karabakh war hardened positions on both sides, which culminated in 2020’s six weeks of bloodshed. Today, the ceasefire plan leaves many questions unanswered, including the crucial issue of Nagorno Karabakh’s status, but immediate efforts to force compromise on that risk backfiring.
What should be done? Rather than seek an elusive comprehensive agreement, parties and stakeholders should prioritise humanitarian needs and international support to rebuild infrastructure and forge cooperative ways forward, including through commerce. Of outside actors, Russia will play the lead role, but success is more likely if Eu