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1/2: #Russia: #SouthCaucasus: The vision of a trade route from China and India to Turkey to Europe though Azerbaijan and Armenia. Ekaterina Zolotova, GPFutures

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:20.0

This is CBS High on the World, I'm John Bachelor, the South Caucasus,

0:24.6

Azerbaijan and Armenia, adversaries since the end of the Soviet state.

0:30.4

The battle over territory that is Azerbaijani by the claims of Baku and by the concession

0:39.0

of Yerevan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, acknowledging that Nagorno-Karabakh is Azerbaijan.

0:46.5

Territory, however, that is not resolved the conflict that led to an armed conflict

0:52.7

in late 2020. I visited Azerbaijan after that conflict, saw the remnants of the

0:59.8

missile exchanges, saw the anxiety of the former Nagorno-Karabakh farmers who wanted to go

1:05.3

back to their land, and yet they had to wait because of landmines, because of ongoing conflict

1:11.6

risks when you enter into a former battle zone. However, since then, things have not turned out

1:18.9

peacefully, and I welcome Ekaterina Zalotava, writing for geopolitical futures, she's in Moscow.

1:26.0

And we need to look at this map, which is complicated by the fact that South Caucasus is up and

1:31.4

down, and there are passageways that are everybody has to use, and there are impassable parts

1:37.6

of the up and down landscape. So we look at the major players as of 2020 through 2023.

1:45.3

Ekaterina, a very good evening to you. Thank you for this. The first major player is Russia.

1:51.0

A Russian Federation guaranteeing peacekeepers between the two adversaries until and

1:57.1

if a peace treaty is signed, and there's resolution of these different pieces in conflict.

2:03.4

What is Russia's ambition here? What is Russia's mission as you understand it? Good evening, too.

2:09.2

Good evening. Russia has a special interest to the South Caucasus. First of all, if we look at the

2:17.7

map of Russia, we'll see that the South of Russia eats the North Caucasus, and it is quite

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