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...Keyser had built a name at the State Department as a brilliant analyst and diplomatic tactician. Under Bill Clinton he was an emissary to the war in the former Soviet province of Nagorno-Karabakh, and served as No. 2 in the Department of State's bureau of intelligence and research. In the Bush Administration he was named deputy to Kelly in the Asia bureau, where he had a top-secret security clearance. But his career was not free of scandal. Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright suspended him and five colleagues after the disappearance of a computer containing classified...
...chatted about the Nagorno region. He took me through the part of Queens which was predominantly Georgian and recommended several restaurants. We talked about his children. I don't know how we got to the airport with 10 minutes to spare, but we did. Most of the ride had alternated between watching us fly by buildings and cars and Fran Drescher look-alikes and conversing with my excited cab driver. But what I thought would be a worrisome-as-usual trip turned out to be quite interesting. And a first-class seat on the way home? I think...
...cause for concern in America and, more particularly, in Russia. Armenia's strategic significance is underscored by the fact that U.S. undersecretary of state Strobe Talbott held five hours of talks with Sarkisian and President Robert Kocharian on the very day of the shootings, discussing the vexing question of Nagorno-Karabakh. The predominantly Armenian enclave inside neighboring Azerbaijan sparked a war between the two countries following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Talbott had been discussing a settlement to the unresolved conflict. Russia will be watching with interest because of the complex struggle for influence along the route...
Several audience members stressed the depth of the ethnic strife between Azerbaijan and Armenia, particularly over Nagorno-Karabagh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan...
Joseph Dagdigian, chair of the Armenian National Committee of Merrimack Valley (N.H.), criticized the Azerbaijani government in his question, saying that the nation had committed genocide against Armenians in the country and in Nagorno-Karabagh...