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    France Diplomatie (press release)
    Nov 20 2009


    Meeting of the Heads of State of Armenia and Azerbaijan
    (November 22, 2009)


    .At the invitation of the three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group for
    the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement (the United States, France
    and Russia), the Heads of State of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet
    for the sixth time this year at the residence of France?s Consul
    General in Munich on November 22.

    France will be represented at this meeting by Ambassador Bernard
    Fassier, France's Co-Chair for the Minsk Group since January 2005.

    The Basic Principles for achieving a peaceful, fair and lasting
    resolution to this conflict were jointly proposed to the parties in
    Madrid at the end of November 2007 by the French and Russian Foreign
    Ministers and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.

    In their joint statement on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila
    in July, the French, American and Russian presidents reaffirmed that
    these proposals were still on the negotiating table and invited the
    parties to finalize them as quickly as possible. The appendix of this
    statement described the basic elements of the proposals:

    - return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to
    Azerbaijani control

    - an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh providing guarantees for
    security and self-governance

    - a corridor linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh

    - future determination of the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh
    through a legally binding expression of will

    - the right of all internally displaced persons and refugees to
    return to their former places of residence and,

    - international security guarantees that would include a
    peacekeeping operation.

    The mediators are striving to achieve approval of these proposals by
    the parties to the conflict.

    http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france -priorities_1/conflicts-and-crisis_1959/the-nagorn o-karabagh-conflict_3276/the-nagorno-karabakh-conf lict-meeting-of-the-heads-of-state-of-armenia-and- azerbaijan-22.11.09_13399.html

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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