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Issue delves into geopolitics in Karabakh for Francophone policy-makers
March 2010 saw the release of the 11th edition of the Revue Arménienne, a French journal of Armenian geopolitical issues published through the initiative of AGBU's Bibliothèque Nubar in Paris. Edited by Raymond Kevorkian, a political scientist at the University of Paris and director of the Bibliothèque Nubar, the issue is devoted to geopolitics in and around Karabakh. It contains interviews with Vladimir Kazimirov, the Russian former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, and Yevgeny Kirilov, South Caucasus liaison of the European Parliament.
"Today, as 16 years of peace negotiations [concerning the Karabakh war] continue under the auspices of the Minsk Group, the question of the security of the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh remains a central element," writes Kevorkian in the introductory editorial.
Kevorkian also contributed several articles to the journal — a historical analysis of the roots of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, and a survey piece on the escalation of ethnic conflict into the full-blown Karabakh war. Gerard Guerguerian, a lawyer in Paris and member of the Observatoire Armenien, contributed a legal analysis of the possibility that the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh be granted recognition as a sovereign nation. And Hovhannes Guevorkian, Karabakh's permanent representative to France, contributed an essay on the demographics of the republic 18 years after its creation.
The edition of 600 targets politicians, diplomats, intellectuals, educated Armenians, and economic strategists in the Francophone world. There are 300 subscribers, who include individuals, university libraries, French ministers and deputies and other political agents. The review is distributed at no cost to political leaders in French regions with sizeable Armenian populations, members of French-Armenian alliances, French-Armenian associations and intellectuals, and certain universities. Abroad, the review reaches staff at the European Parliament in Brussels, and concerned individuals in Canada and Lebanon.
An annual subscription and back issues of the Revue Arménienne can be ordered by contacting:
Amis de la Bibliothèque Nubar
Bibliothèque Nubar
11, Square Alboni
75016 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0) 1 45 20 03 18
Fax: +33 (0) 1 40 50 88 09
Email: bibliotheque@agbueurope.org
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