Reno Harnish: New War in Karabakh will be Calamity to Caucasus

PanARMENIAN.Net - US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish supposes that a new war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh will be a calamity to entire Caucasus. He stated it to Leader TV channel in Baku. In the US diplomat's opinion, «if talks fail and there is a new war over Karabakh, there will be more human victims than during the war in 90s, as the parties are armed better now.» «It will be a war of two powerful and well-equipped armies,» the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan supposes. «A new war will undermine development of Azeri economy,» R. Harnish said, reported RFE/RL.
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