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    ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN LEADERS TO MEET IN MOSCOW FOR CONFLICT TALKS

    AFP
    29 oct 08

    MOSCOW (AFP) -- The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet
    in Moscow this weekend to discuss the Nagorny Karabakh conflict in
    talks mediated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin
    said Wednesday.

    "On November 2, 2008, in Moscow... a meeting will take place between
    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh
    Sarkisian with the participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
    on the regulation of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict," the Kremlin said
    in a statement.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan confirmed that the meeting would take place, but
    presidential officials in both countries declined to comment further.

    Medvedev visited Armenia last week in a fresh push to end the
    long-simmering conflict over Nagorny Karabakh, an enclave of Azerbaijan
    with a largely ethnic Armenian population that broke free of Baku's
    control in the early 1990s.

    Sarkisian said at the meeting that he was ready for talks with Baku
    on the basis of principles worked out at negotiations in Madrid last
    year, meaning that the people of Nagorny Karabakh gain the right
    to self-determination.

    The enclave has been the subject of heightened international diplomacy
    in recent weeks, with US and Turkish officials visiting Armenia to
    push for a negotiated solution.

    Analysts say Moscow is keen to maintain influence in Armenia, its
    main ally in the Caucasus, after Russia's brief war with US-allied
    Georgia in August raised tensions throughout the region.

    The August war, which began when Georgia attacked its own breakaway
    enclave of South Ossetia, raised fears of similar violence in Nagorny
    Karabakh.

    Nearly 30,000 were killed in the 1990s war over the enclave and
    soldiers on both sides continue to exchange sporadic fire, claiming
    lives.
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