Russia And Turkey To Lose Status As Guarantors Of Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan – Analysis

The status of Azerbaijan’s non-contiguous autonomous region, Nakhchivan, one of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s most fateful acts of ethnic engineering more than a century ago, is about to change. The parliament of the autonomous republic asked Baku to approve new constitutional language that drops any reference to the Moscow and Kars treaties of 1921, which made Moscow and Ankara guarantors of the status and borders of Nakhchivan (Minval Politika, February 2). The Azerbaijani parliament took this step on February 2 (Azernews, February 2).