“Dopo lunghi negoziati, le coraggiose concessioni dell’Armenia rendono possibile questo ultimo passo sul percorso: un percorso su cui abbiamo accompagnato entrambi i paesi. Chiedo a entrambe le parti di firmare ora l’accordo di pace.” – Germania MFA Annalena Baerbock

LSS (for now and for many years/decades) Europe wants Armenia to drop ICC/ICJ cases against Aliyev’s ethnic cleansing of Artsakh for the sake of regional peace.

That was the main concession of the peace agreement, one of many concessions made due to the military disparity and a state of the world where authoritarian states can commit ethnic cleansings and threaten democracies to make concessions without tangible legal or economic consequences.

(And other recent ICC/ICJ cases should inform you that the rulings aren’t worth the toilet paper they’re written on, so as much as much is lost and the probability P of any civilian return to Artsakh trends to 0, much also isn’t gained so long as the rules based order is on coma life support.

The wool no longer pulled over the eyes… one can see that Aliyev’s laundromat and diversified holdings ensured he was never going to be a Duterte.)

At least the Germans are frank in calling it a courageous concession, because that is what it is. One must hope that this one is the ‘final’ of the ‘final steps’.