Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to all of our witnesses today.
I'd like to kind of circle in on the particulars of the Nagorno-Karabakh situation if we can, because in any conflict—and this is a long-standing conflict—there are geopolitical considerations. We talked a lot about conflict of interest, but the conflicting interests of the parties that are involved and the allies that are supporting them are calculations that go into this equation.
Professor Waters, can you explain to us the long-standing origins of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict? How far back are we going?