Another new nation in the world?

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- Independence!!!
  
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- to Azerbaijan
  
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- to Armenia
  
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Posted June 28, 200619 yr

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to allow a referendum in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh (pictured) on its status

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Nagorno-Karabakh is a region in the South Caucasus within the borders of Azerbaijan, located about 270 kilometres (170 miles) west of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, and very close to the border with Armenia.

The predominantly Armenian region was incorporated by the Soviet Union as the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1923. On December 10, 1991, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, a referendum held in the NKAO and the neighboring district of Shahumian resulted in a declaration of independence from Azerbaijan as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), though it exists in a de facto status only, as it remains unrecognized by any international organization or country, including Armenia; the region is recognized as a de jure part of Azerbaijan.[2]

In the final years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the region became a source of dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, culminating in the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Since the end of the war in 1994, most of Nagorno-Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan around it remain under Armenian military control.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group. [3]

wow seems that something is being done at last to this region after many many years. however which way do you think the result (if referendum occurs) will swing and the how the result will affest the region?