Black Garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War

part, many Armenians talk implausibly as though Azerbaijan is some-
how not a real country and its claims will simply fade away with the 
passing of time. In that sense, the biggest problem is not so much lack 
of a readiness to compromise as lack of a readiness to contemplate any 
future with the other side at all. Gukasian tells a story that illustrates 
this well. In 1995, he was one of the Armenian delegation invited by Fin-
land to talks on the Aaland Islands. These Swedish-speaking islands are