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Leaders Of Azerbaijan, Armenia To Hold Karabakh Talks
Agence France Presse
Sept 2 2004
NAKHCHEVAN, Azerbaijan, Sept 2 (AFP) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham
Aliyev said Thursday he would hold talks later this month with his
Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian on the future of the disputed
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Aliyev said the meeting with Kocharian would take place on the
sidelines of a summit of former Soviet states which opens in
Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on September 15.
Under international law, Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan but
since a war in the early 1990s the mountainous territory has been
under de facto Armenian control.
More than a decade of sporadic peace talks has failed to settle the
row and Azerbaijan has threatened to go to war again to drive out
Armenian forces.
"We have not yet been able to reach an agreement, but the negotiations
are continuing, they are dealing with specific issues, and I want
to hope that they will produce results," Aliyev told reporters on a
visit to the province of Nakhchevan in western Azerbaijan.
Agence France Presse
Sept 2 2004
NAKHCHEVAN, Azerbaijan, Sept 2 (AFP) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham
Aliyev said Thursday he would hold talks later this month with his
Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian on the future of the disputed
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Aliyev said the meeting with Kocharian would take place on the
sidelines of a summit of former Soviet states which opens in
Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on September 15.
Under international law, Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan but
since a war in the early 1990s the mountainous territory has been
under de facto Armenian control.
More than a decade of sporadic peace talks has failed to settle the
row and Azerbaijan has threatened to go to war again to drive out
Armenian forces.
"We have not yet been able to reach an agreement, but the negotiations
are continuing, they are dealing with specific issues, and I want
to hope that they will produce results," Aliyev told reporters on a
visit to the province of Nakhchevan in western Azerbaijan.