GNV News March 16, 2025

On March 13, 2025, the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan will sign a peace treaty that will end their nearly 40-year conflict.agreementThe government of Azerbaijan announced that it had decided to take over Nagorno-Karabakh. The conflict erupted in the 1990s over the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was considered Azerbaijani territory by many countries while being home to a large Armenian population. Since then, the situation had settled down to the point where Nagorno-Karabakh, with the military support of Armenia, became "independent" from Azerbaijan. However, in September 2023, Azerbaijan, with the support of Turkey, launched a large-scalearmed invasionand 100,000 Armenians, or about 85% of the region's inhabitants, were forced to flee their homes. Since then, Azerbaijan has effectively controlled the region. Negotiations on the date and place of the official signing of the peace treaty have not yetIt's going on.The following is a list of the most common problems with the

However, the issue has not yet been fully resolved. As a prerequisite for the signing of the treaty, Azerbaijan has made the reference in the Armenian Constitution to "the belonging of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia" adeletiondemanded, but a referendum is required to amend Armenia's constitution, and the hurdles to realization are high. It is also possible that Azerbaijan will demand more concessions from Armenia, and a complete resolution of the conflict will still require time.

Learn more about the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh → "Repeated Military Conflicts: Nagorno-Karabakh"

Learn more about Nagorno-Karabakh → "Nagorno-Karabakh: a region that looks like a state but is not a state"

Drones used for military purposes in Nagorno-Karabakh (Photo:David Stanley / Flickr [CC BY 2.0]