Expert: political cost of compromise too high for Armenian and Azeri elite
The Karabakh issue is very delicate because all sides to the conflict - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh - have 'closed doors' and do not get into contact, senior analyst of the International Crisis Group Claire Delessard said at a debate on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict held in the framework of the first Kyev conference on 'lingering conflicts'.
"We should understand that political cost of compromise is too high for Armenian and Azeri elite. The publics in both states are not ready for concessions. There is too much radicalism and a wide flow of propaganda used by the ruling elite for their own purposes," she said, IA Regnum reports.
"We should understand that political cost of compromise is too high for Armenian and Azeri elite. The publics in both states are not ready for concessions. There is too much radicalism and a wide flow of propaganda used by the ruling elite for their own purposes," she said, IA Regnum reports.
