Jamestown Foundation, DC
June 20 2005
Jamestown Delegation Returns from the Caucasus
06/20/2005 – 06/17/2005, Washington DC — The Jamestown Foundation
this week completed a six-day delegation visit to the South Caucasus,
during which participants from Jamestown’s Board of Directors and
several interested U.S. Foundations traveled to the Republics of
Georgia and Azerbaijan . The Jamestown delegation met with the
leaders of both countries in the wake of President Bush’s historic
visit to Tbilisi and the May 25th launching of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhand pipeline in Azerbaijan.
Led by Jamestown Foundation President Glen Howard, the delegation was
also escorted on official excursions to the Pankisi gorge, where
Western-led attempts failed to reinstall monitors on Georgia’s
fragile northern border, and also to the frontlines of the Azerbaijan
sector of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is set for a new round
of negotiations in Europe this weekend. The Jamestown delegation
participated in a series of high-level discussions on these and many
other issues as part of its mission to address conflict and
instability in this area of strategic importance, as well as assess
the prospects for regional integration into Euro-Atlantic security
and economic structures.
A region in the balance of political upheaval and ethnic conflict,
the Caucasus represents one of many strategic locations to the U.S.
where Jamestown closely monitors and reports on security
developments. To learn more about the region and receive daily
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