The United States may not have as much attention to the Nagorno conflict in 2011, before the forthcoming presidential elections in 2012, Heritage Foundation's leading expert on Eurasia Ariel Cohen has said.
"I regret that the forecast for 2011 on Nagorno-Karabakh is disappointing. The conflict hardly has a prospect of a breakthrough, especially since the parties had missed such a wonderful opportunity as the OSCE summit," he told the Azerbaijani news agency Trend.
He said the leaders of the conflicting countries used the Astana summit as a platform for mutual accusations for the lack of progress and instead of implementing their commitment to the peaceful settlement of the territorial dispute.
"So intractable conflicts, in which the prospects for immediate political and public relations dividend for Washington are small, and a threat to national security is also limited, offer a lower priority for the U.S. administration, especially given the continuing difficulties with the country's economic situation,"Cohen told the agency over the telephone from Minsk.
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