From 1991 to 1997, Gerard Libaridian served as adviser, and then senior adviser to the first president of Armenia and was closely involved in the Karabakh negotiations. He now specialises in the Caucasus at the University of Michigan’s History Department.

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Accord Issue 17: Nagorny Karabakh

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