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Foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss
Karabakh conflict in Moscow
.c The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) - The foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
were slated to meet in Moscow on Wednesday for discussions of the
conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and a planned meeting this
week between the two Caucasus nations' presidents, the Interfax news
agency reported.
``Negotiations have intensified noticeably over the past six months,''
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov was quoted as saying
Tuesday, referring to talks on Nagorno-Karabakh that have been
mediated by Russia, the United States and France.
The bloodshed began after the legislature of the ethnic
Armenian-dominated enclave in Azerbaijan called in 1988 for the region
to be incorporated into Armenia, which like Azerbaijan was then still
a Soviet republic. Full-scale military offensives broke out in 1991;
thousands were killed and a million displaced.
A tense cease-fire has held since 1994 but efforts to finally resolve
Nagorno-Karabakh's status have repeatedly failed.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian and his Azerbaijani counterpart
Ilham Aliev are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of a summit of the
Commonwealth of Independent States in Russia's Volga River city of
Kazan on Friday, Interfax said.
08/24/05 02:26 EDT
Karabakh conflict in Moscow
.c The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) - The foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
were slated to meet in Moscow on Wednesday for discussions of the
conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and a planned meeting this
week between the two Caucasus nations' presidents, the Interfax news
agency reported.
``Negotiations have intensified noticeably over the past six months,''
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov was quoted as saying
Tuesday, referring to talks on Nagorno-Karabakh that have been
mediated by Russia, the United States and France.
The bloodshed began after the legislature of the ethnic
Armenian-dominated enclave in Azerbaijan called in 1988 for the region
to be incorporated into Armenia, which like Azerbaijan was then still
a Soviet republic. Full-scale military offensives broke out in 1991;
thousands were killed and a million displaced.
A tense cease-fire has held since 1994 but efforts to finally resolve
Nagorno-Karabakh's status have repeatedly failed.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian and his Azerbaijani counterpart
Ilham Aliev are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of a summit of the
Commonwealth of Independent States in Russia's Volga River city of
Kazan on Friday, Interfax said.
08/24/05 02:26 EDT