The conflicts bakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia remain unresolved, remain unresolved to this day, and the governments the displaced cannot return and remain in protracted of the unrecognized republics decline the return of the displacement. [...] The analysis traces the differ- In the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, about 600,000 ent waves of internal displacement in the South Cauca- ethnic Azeri fled the areas that came under Armenian 1 In addition to the 2,700 Armenian IDPs who were displaced in the 1990s, the country has 31,299 persons in a refugee-like situation at the end of 2021, the majority of whom (26,725) have been displaced in the 20. [...] 08 April 2020, the EU development ministers approved Having control over a €2 trillion budget for the 2021– a “Team Europe” package in response to the ongoing 2027 period, the EC is capable of defining the interna- pandemic in partner countries by uniting the resources tional position of the EU by affecting the areas under of the EU, its member states, the European Investment its supervision (Bloc. [...] The COVID-19 pandemic contributed At the same time, this favoritism, in light of the rel- to the competition between development actors by atively modest support to Armenia despite its struggles strengthening the positions of emerging donors and chal- with the social, economic, and political consequences of lenging the traditional providers of development assis- the war and the pandemic, reinforce. [...] The EC’s aspirations to become the “geopolitical Commis- Nevertheless, Team Europe’s performance in the sion” vis-à-vis Russia, Turkey, and China have so far been South Caucasus in regard to the objectives of the “geo- only partially realized in the three countries of the South political Commission” has been mixed.
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