On Wednesday December 15, 2021, an important interview will take place in Brussels.
It will bring face to face Nikol Pachinian and Ilham Aliev, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet Socialist Republics neighboring the South Caucasus.
The first, Christian, is poor and landlocked;
the second, Muslim, is rich and open to the Caspian Sea.
Since the breakup of the USSR 30 years ago, they have lived in a state of hostility, bitterly fighting over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
This mountainous oblast, an autonomous district, although mainly populated by Armenians, belonged to the territory of Azerbaijan.
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