Nagorno-Karabakh: Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan escalate | DW Interview

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Just after the war in Ukraine began, tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan also escalated. Fighting over the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh last broke out in 2020. Now peace talks are taking place, with the EU as a broker. DW spoke to Armenia’s President Vahagn Khachaturyan on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos to ask about the conflict – and about the long shadow the war in Ukraine is casting on his country.

Armenia’s President Vahagn Khachaturyan spoke in Armenian during our interview. Please turn on the closed captions for an English translation.

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