Hard Times for Multivectorism in Post-Soviet Space: Azerbaijan between Russia and the West

... much the Azerbaijani President wanted to please Clinton boasting not only about fine-tuning the weather in Washington that day, but also “making a lot of effort… [for] the U.S. to become a co-chair of the Minsk Group” which to date deals with the Nagorno Karabakh peace process. “We trust you more than anyone”, said Heydar Aliyev to Clinton then, congratulating Clinton on NATO eastward expansion “despite how much Russia shouted”. It was only two years later that the hybrid regional grouping of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) was announced in the margins of NATO Washington Summit in 1999, a platform that was brought together exclusively on anti-Russian ...