Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Current Tensions Over Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia held a foreign minister-level meeting April 22 in Moscow to discuss several issues, but chiefly the dispute over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the region reached a peak recently, when the Armenian president announced his intention to be on the first flight to a reopened airport in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan threatened to shoot down any flight into the territory. Tensions have eased some since then, but as the date of the airport's reopening approaches, diplomatic and military events could indicate what will happen at the slated reopening.