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  • BAKU: Russia Takes Moscow Declaration As "Road Map" Of Nagorno-Karab

    RUSSIA TAKES MOSCOW DECLARATION AS "ROAD MAP" OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT: AMBASSADOR

    Trend News Agency
    Nov 20 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 20 November / Тrend News corr. J.Babayeva/ Russia
    takes the Moscow Declaration on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that
    was signed among the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia as a
    "road map" on further settlement of the conflict, Russian Ambassador
    to Azerbaijan Vasiliy Istratov said to journalists on 20 November.

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenia's Serzh Sargsyan and
    Russia's Dmitry Medvedev signed a declaration at the end of their
    meeting in Mein Dorf castle near Moscow on 2 November. Presidents
    of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan decided to make joint efforts to
    normalize the situation in Caucasus and requested Foreign Ministers
    to make efforts to solve the [Armenian-Azerbaijani] Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict. The declaration calls for the settlement of the conflict in
    line with the principles and norms of international law and decisions
    and documents adopted in this respect, which will create favourable
    conditions for economic development and comprehensive cooperation in
    the region.

    "The views about the initiative to involve Nagorno-Karabakh in settling
    of the conflict are mere views and statements. We must proceed from
    what we have - the Moscow Declaration. This document does have a
    signature of the Nagorno-Karabakh representatives. We must wait to
    see the developments," he said.

    The Moscow Declaration confirms Russia's aspiration to settle the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by political means, Sergei Vinokurov, Chief
    of the Russian Presidential Directorate for Interregional Relations
    and Cultural Contacts with Foreign Countries, said to journalists in
    Baku on 20 November.

    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
    1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
    lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December
    1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and
    Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan
    and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active
    hostilities ended. The countries keep on peace negotiating through
    the OSCE Minsk Group.

    --Boundary_(ID_IfB8cEpmZCKFANQ6qXFDkg)--
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