PROVOCĂRI LA ADRESA SECURITĂŢII ŞI STRATEGIEI LA ÎNCEPUTUL SECOLULUI XXI

the only Caucasus state to have renewed its commitment for another five
years in 1999.
Figura 1 Regiunea Mării Negre Extinsă
Though Armenia participates in PfP, NATO membership remains
controversial because of unresolved problems with Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Armenia has close relations with Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria and
remains very close to Russia.
Figura 2 Armenia
Armenia
Security problems:
Armenia supports ethnic Armenian secessionists in
Nagorno-Karabakh and militarily occupies 16% of Azerbaijan -
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
continues to mediate dispute; border with Turkey remains closed
over Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; traditional demands regarding
former Armenian lands in Turkey have subsided; ethnic
Armenian groups in Javakheti region of Georgia seek greater
autonomy from the new Georgian Government.
Nagorno-Karabakh has never legally belonged to
Azerbaijan or constituted a part of it.
The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic
Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the
break-up of the centrally directed economic system of the former
Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the
early 1990s.
Armenia participates in PfP.
Figura 3 Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Security problems:
Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continues
to mediate dispute between Azerbaijan
and Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
represent 16% of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan oil has been
pumped through the oil pipelines
stretching across the Russian territory to
the seaport of Novorossiysk in the Black
Sea.
Another pipeline is across the
Georgian territory to the seaport of Supsa
which is also located on the Black Sea
coast.
Azerbaijan hopes to resolve
the Nagorno-Karabakh issue through its
„oil diplomacy”.
Nagorno-Karabakh was the
only autonomous region of the former
URSS. Nagorno-Karabakh was the only
autonomous region of the former URSS.
Armenia participates in PfP.
The oil factor has never been and will never constitute the crucial
element of the conflict, either for Karabakh or Armenia. The Karabakh issue
must not be leveled down to the issue of economic benefits of the third
countries [5].
The solution to the Karabakh conflict is still far from its end.
Because of the tough position of the Azerbaijan authorities inspired by the
oil projects, as distinct from Russian authorities in the case of Chechnya and
the Georgian authorities in the case of Abkhazia, Azerbaijan refused to
recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as a party to conflict, neglecting the existing
political and legal realities and avoid direct negotiations [6]. It negotiates the
Nagorno-Karabakh status with third countries and oil companies.
Both Azerbaijan and Georgia withdrew from the CIS in 1999.
Azerbaijan remains in conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh and
has problems with terrorism, drugs, crime, and human trafficking.
An original signatory of the 1992 Tashkent Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) Collective Security Treaty with Russia, Armenia is
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