A Modest Proposal for Nagorno-Karabakh

Sometimes resolution comes not from a single convention but in installments. Such may be the case for Nagorno-Karabakh. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan are set to meet with the foreign ministers of Russia, the United States and France in Vienna on May 16. While important, this is not the type of meeting expected to achieve great accomplishments in the longer-term future of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. As part of the peace negotiations held by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, the meeting will cater more toward addressing immediate tactical concerns in Nagorno-Karabakh. For any meeting to lead to notable outcomes in the grand scheme of the dispute in the region, it would have had to include the most prominent of decision-makers, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin....