RESOURCES:

reports, interviews, useful links and archive

REPORTS:

LINKS Briefing Paper

KARABAKH: the quest for peace

The paper is written by Amanda Akcakoca, Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels and Dennis Sammut, LINKS Executive Director. The paper says that the international community needs to show it is ready to carry more responsibility to resolve the conflict, by making a solution of the Karabakh problem a priority and by offering continued support to the Minsk Process whilst not using the Minsk process as an excuse for inertia. The paper was published on 1 December 2009 amidst hopes of a breakthrough in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the future of the territory.

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LINKS-INEGMA Briefing Paper

AL-QAEDA IN THE CAUCASUS: fact or fiction?

LINKS and INEGMA, the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Studies have just published a briefing paper on the presence and role of Al-Qaeda in the Caucasus. With a deteriorating security situation in the North Caucasus and amidst Russian accusations of Georgian support for Al-Qaeda activity in the region, the briefing paper discusses where fact stops and fiction starts.

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LINKS-INEGMA Briefing Paper

THE NORMALISATION OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS WILL HAVE IMPLICATIONS WELL BEYOND THE TWO COUNTRIES

In a joint paper, published by LINKS and the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Studies (INEGMA), the implications of the normalisation of relations between Turkey and Armenia and their impact beyond the two countries is discussed. Not only in the Caucasus, but also in Central Asia and in the Gulf the significance of the move, and particularly the new diplomatic tools being employed by the Turkish government are being looked at with great interest.

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INTERVIEWS:

Media coverage of LINKS report on Karabakh, the Athens Roundtable meeting and interviews with Executive Director

Media outlets in the South Caucasus have given extensive coverage to the report Karabakh: the quest for peace, published by LINKS on 1 December and to the Round Table discussion organised on the margins of the OSCE meeting in Athens. Reports also included interviews with the Executive Director of the organisation. You can read the interviews in full at

http://news.az/articles/3727