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Five-party meeting on Karabakh to be held at OSCE informal summit
YEREVAN, July 17 (RIA Novosti)
A five-sided meeting on settling the Nagorny Karabakh conflict is to
be held on Saturday as part of an informal summit of OSCE foreign
ministers in the Kazakh city of Almaty.
A long-standing dispute over Nagorny Karabakh, a breakaway region
inside Azerbaijan with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population, has
been a sticking point in relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The conflict first erupted in 1988, when the region claimed
independence from Azerbaijan to join Armenia. The OSCE Minsk Group,
comprising the United States, Russia and France, mediates the
conflict.
The Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and French foreign ministers -
Edward Nalbandian, Elmar Mamedyarov, Sergei Lavrov, Bernard Kouchner -
as well as U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton are expected to
participate.
On July 14, Nalbandian told reporters in Yerevan that the Minsk Group
co-chairmen are trying to organize the meeting but that it has not
been fully agreed.
From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, July 17 (RIA Novosti)
A five-sided meeting on settling the Nagorny Karabakh conflict is to
be held on Saturday as part of an informal summit of OSCE foreign
ministers in the Kazakh city of Almaty.
A long-standing dispute over Nagorny Karabakh, a breakaway region
inside Azerbaijan with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population, has
been a sticking point in relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The conflict first erupted in 1988, when the region claimed
independence from Azerbaijan to join Armenia. The OSCE Minsk Group,
comprising the United States, Russia and France, mediates the
conflict.
The Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and French foreign ministers -
Edward Nalbandian, Elmar Mamedyarov, Sergei Lavrov, Bernard Kouchner -
as well as U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton are expected to
participate.
On July 14, Nalbandian told reporters in Yerevan that the Minsk Group
co-chairmen are trying to organize the meeting but that it has not
been fully agreed.
From: A. Papazian