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    MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRMEN DISCUSS NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT WITH FUTURE OSCE CO-CHAIRMAN
    Trend E. Tariverdiyeva

    Trend
    Dec 7 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis received
    the Co-Chairs of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
    Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group from the United States, France and Russia
    and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO) on
    the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Andrzej Kasprzyk, and discussed with
    them the situation in the South Caucasus and in Nagorno-Karabakh.

    The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Robert Bradtke
    of the United States, Bernard Fassier of France, and Igor Popov of
    Russia, were issued a mandate to spearhead the negotiations towards
    a settlement of this conflict.

    Minister highlighted to his interlocutors the need to strengthen
    the role of the OSCE Secretariat, institutions and missions in the
    entire conflict resolution cycle. The participants of the meeting
    also discussed the impact that the results of the OSCE Summit of
    Heads of State or Government on 1-2 December in Astana may have on
    the resolution of protracted conflicts.

    The participants also exchanged their ideas on the implementation
    of mutual confidence-building measures that could aid the Armenian
    and Azerbaijani societies, and discussed future cooperation between
    Lithuania's incoming OSCE chairmanship in 2011 in and the Minsk Group.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the United
    States - are currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding
    regions.




    From: A. Papazian
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