translate English to French: In Transcaucasia, to use a generic term for the four countries, independence has come against a backcloth of the Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and its Armenian minority, which of course could hardly be disregarded by neighbouring Armenia, cut off from its kin by the artificial territorial arrangements of 1922.
En Transcaucasie, car je voudrais parler des quatre pays, les indépendances eurent pour toile de fond la guerre du Karabakh opposant l'Azerbaïdjan à sa minorité arménienne, ce qui, naturellement, ne pouvait laisser indifférente l'Arménie voisine coupée de ses frères par les arrangements territoriaux artificiels de 1922.