Should Nagorno-Karabakh independence be recognized by the US and EU?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Absolutely. It's a travesty Kosovo is being recognized but not here by the west.

[Silent Hunter]

Provided that they are willing to live in peace with their neighbours and have a legitimate case for a state, I support their independence.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

have a legitimate case for a state

Let's see: They are mostly Christian in a majority Muslim country.

They have a legitimate cause.

[Daniel Adams]

have a legitimate case for a state

Let's see: They are mostly Christian in a majority Muslim country.

Mostly because the Armenians practiced ethnic cleansing after they took over the region...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

have a legitimate case for a state

Let's see: They are mostly Christian in a majority Muslim country.

Mostly because the Armenians practiced ethnic cleansing after they took over the region...

The region was around 75% Armenian at the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ethnic cleansing was of all Armenians all in the other regions on Azerbaijan. Baku's Armenian population was basically wiped out.

[GMantis]

have a legitimate case for a state

Let's see: They are mostly Christian in a majority Muslim country.

Mostly because the Armenians practiced ethnic cleansing after they took over the region...

Again you demonstrate your ignorance of the Caucasus. Karabakh has a huge Armenian majority and this has been the situation for a long time.
The Armenians did occupy a rather large area inhabited by Azerbaijani and its population was largely expelled, but this was after a war started by Azerbaijan to conquer Karabakh and after most of the Armenian population outside of Karabakh was expelled.
All in all, there isn't a case in the Caucasus where the right is so clearly on one side and of course Nagorno Karabakh should be internationally recognized.
An interesting trivia: The Soviet commission on nationalities decided unanimously in 1921 that Karabakh should be part of Armenia, but Stalin, the head of the commission, overruled them and gave the region to Azerbaijan. Rather funny when one considers who is most opposed to any recognition...

[AkSaber]

have a legitimate case for a state

Let's see: They are mostly Christian in a majority Muslim country.

Mostly because the Armenians practiced ethnic cleansing after they took over the region...

Again you demonstrate your ignorance of the Caucasus. Karabakh has a huge Armenian majority and this has been the situation for a long time.
The Armenians did occupy a rather large area inhabited by Azerbaijani and its population was largely expelled, but this was after a war started by Azerbaijan to conquer Karabakh and after most of the Armenian population outside of Karabakh was expelled.
All in all, there isn't a case in the Caucasus where the right is so clearly on one side and of course Nagorno Karabakh should be internationally recognized.
An interesting trivia: The Soviet commission on nationalities decided unanimously in 1921 that Karabakh should be part of Armenia, but Stalin, the head of the commission, overruled them and gave the region to Azerbaijan. Rather funny when one considers who is most opposed to any recognition...

Wasn't it also Stalin who put South Ossetia in Georgia?

[GMantis]

Wasn't it also Stalin who put South Ossetia in Georgia?

Yes, even though the Georgians and Osetians had just had a war. Not a surprising decision, considering he was Georgian himself.