Question:Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh is a disputed region between which two countries?
(a) Armenia and Turkey
(b) Georgia and Armenia
(c) Russia and Azerbaijan
(d) Armenia and Azerbaijan
Answer : (d)
- Context:
- For approximately four decades, territorial disputes and ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Central Asia have impacted the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the South Caucasus. Recently, tensions escalated at the border between the two countries.
- Facts:
- Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, within the mountainous range of Karabakh.
- Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed territory, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but mostly governed by the Republic of Artsakh, a de facto independent state with an Armenian ethnic majority established on the basis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Azerbaijan has not exercised political authority over the region since the advent of the Karabakh movement in 1988. Since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, representatives of the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks on the region’s disputed status.
By-Arpit Mishra
Links:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-6505740/
ahttps://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/nagorno-karabakh-conflict