ANALYSIS: THE MINSK STANDSTILL; Will a novel Scandinavian Face save the. Karabakh peace process?
As usual, there are a certain number of bad news and some marginally religious news in the Karabakh peace effort. The bad novels is that the Minsk proces which was to lay the groundwork for a parley - in Minsk, Belarus - during which the political status of Mountainous Karabakh was to be decided, has reached a dead-end as the positions of Karabakh, Azerbaijan and Armenia have grown further apart.
The Minsk arrange of nine "neutral" countries - Russia, the US, France, Italy, the