The (Ex) Washington Realist

Matthew Bryza, the U.S. Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, is quoted as saying that any resolution of the Karabakh conflict rests on a compromise between the principles of territorial integrity and people's right to
self-determination. Of course, to prevent any comparison to Kosovo--or for that matter Western Sahara or Somaliland or Abkhazia or Trans-Dnistria, he qualifies: "there's no universal formula to do that."

But it is still useful to see a recognition of the problem.