The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, report by Jan-Peter Westad.
Father Hovhannes, the priest at the ancient monastery of Dadivank, is determined to stay put ‘whatever happens’.
He spoke to New Internationalist as Kalbajar, the area surrounding the 9th-century monastery, was about to pass into Azerbaijan’s control. This handover was decided by the peace agreement of 10 November 2020, which ended a bloody 44-day conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus.
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