The Next Hurdle In Armenia And Azerbaijan's Contentious Negotiations

Negotiations over a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan are continuing, even as refugees continue to stream into Armenia following Azerbaijan's military assault on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh last week. Senior advisers to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met on September 26 in Brussels, in preparation for a potential meeting between the leaders themselves in Spain on October 5. A peace deal could -- at least on paper -- put to rest the decades-old conflict between the two sides. But…