Tuesday, 12 February 2008

world health organization offends



World Health Organization offends the Azeris

The World Health Organization has done an Economist by making a

cartographic affront to the Azeris. The WHO's website had maps which

displayed the disputed breakaway republic of Nagorno Karabakh as part

of Armenia. The NK is a de facto republic unrecognized, but protected,

by its ethnic brothers from Armenia.

Unrecognized countries are a cause of great tension. Expect these to

become a greater issue with the upcoming independence (and only

partial recognition) of Kosovo and possibly therefore Transnistria and

the Georgian breakaway republics.


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