Caucasus has always been a tasty morsel for many West European states which have never bordered with the region, head of the center of Caucasian Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Vladimir Zakharov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, everyone is aware of the significant geopolitical location of the Caucasus not only for the states bordering with it but also for the powers which currently assumed the rights to act the Justice of the Peace, to share and rule. "Some analysts voice opinion that the Caucasus attracts the United States only by prospects of wide energy corridor. If we analyze the U.S. external political activity it will coincide with the functioning or planned routes of hydrocarbon transportation," he said.

Zakharov considers that the peculiarities of geopolitical and geostrategic situation of the South Caucasus states played an important role during the recent period. "They offer the U.S. and other leading Western European states various possibilities to realize their interests not only in economic but also in political and especially military sectors. Multivectoral competition and sometimes opposition between the states bordering with the region (Iran, Turkey) and the states situated far away from the region is observed," Zakharov said.

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