US scientist Paul Goble: "If Karabakh is mono-ethnic now, it is so only because of the flight of most Azerbaijanis because of the fighting"

Goble announced that the Aaland system has already been proposed to Azerbaijan

"The Aaland model maintained the territorial integrity of Finland while providing almost unlimited autonomy to the Swedish-speaking population of this archipelago".

Goble speaks of the history of the conflict resolution on the Aaland Islands and brings number of positive aspects saying that each conflict is unique and the word "model" is useless here".

He also points out traditional isolation of the Aalands and its mono-cultural and mono-lingual population of the Aaland Islands (Swedish) among differences between the conflicts.

Goble notes that if Karabakh is mono-ethnic now, it is so only because of the flight of most Azerbaijanis because of the fighting.

He said the Aaland conflict did not have such a large number of dead and wounded.

/APA/