Presenting Kosovo conflict as unique senseless
Proclamation of Kosovo's independence will inevitably echo in breakaway regions in Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh and Transnistria. Parallels are obvious, according to Anatol Lieven, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation.
"To resolve these issues West doesn't have to recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It should just resort to a method, leading powers, although unsuccessfully, try to apply in Nagorno Karabakh, that is "creation of a common state", where Azerbaijan will maintain juridical sovereign possession of the territory simultaneously recognizing de facto independence, including full control of the province's authorities over the military and borders," Lieven writes in the Financial Times.
"To resolve these issues West doesn't have to recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It should just resort to a method, leading powers, although unsuccessfully, try to apply in Nagorno Karabakh, that is "creation of a common state", where Azerbaijan will maintain juridical sovereign possession of the territory simultaneously recognizing de facto independence, including full control of the province's authorities over the military and borders," Lieven writes in the Financial Times.
