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Interfax, Russia
June 24 2010
Armenia leader visits fighters wounded in clash with Azeris - office
YEREVAN June 24
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Thursday visited a military
hospital in Azerbaijan's disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, "where
treatment is being given to soldiers wounded in the course of a
subversive act committed by an Azeri military group on June 18," the
president's office said.
Armenian reports, in describing the June 18 incident, said an Azeri
reconnaissance group had sneaked into Nagorno-Karabakh and clashed
with Nagorno-Karabakh fighters. The reports said four Nagorno-Karabakh
fighters had been killed and another four wounded and that one of the
Azeris was left behind dead as the others withdrew back onto Azeri
territory.
Sargsyan also met with the Nagorno-Karabakh leadership during his
visit to the region and ceremonially opened a new military base in the
enclave, his office said.
An informed Nagorno-Karabakh source told Interfax that Sargsyan was
currently discussing with the region's leadership so-called "St.
Petersburg proposals" for settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
which Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put forward at a meeting with
Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in St. Petersburg on June
17.
"In effect, there is a new document on the negotiating table today,
one that the Armenian side has accepted as guidance for further
negotiations on the basis of the Madrid principles, which had been
presented earlier by the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group of the OSCE,"
the source said.
The Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe is a body mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Its three
co-chairmen represent Russia, the united States and France.
From: A. Papazian
June 24 2010
Armenia leader visits fighters wounded in clash with Azeris - office
YEREVAN June 24
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Thursday visited a military
hospital in Azerbaijan's disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, "where
treatment is being given to soldiers wounded in the course of a
subversive act committed by an Azeri military group on June 18," the
president's office said.
Armenian reports, in describing the June 18 incident, said an Azeri
reconnaissance group had sneaked into Nagorno-Karabakh and clashed
with Nagorno-Karabakh fighters. The reports said four Nagorno-Karabakh
fighters had been killed and another four wounded and that one of the
Azeris was left behind dead as the others withdrew back onto Azeri
territory.
Sargsyan also met with the Nagorno-Karabakh leadership during his
visit to the region and ceremonially opened a new military base in the
enclave, his office said.
An informed Nagorno-Karabakh source told Interfax that Sargsyan was
currently discussing with the region's leadership so-called "St.
Petersburg proposals" for settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
which Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put forward at a meeting with
Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in St. Petersburg on June
17.
"In effect, there is a new document on the negotiating table today,
one that the Armenian side has accepted as guidance for further
negotiations on the basis of the Madrid principles, which had been
presented earlier by the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group of the OSCE,"
the source said.
The Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe is a body mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Its three
co-chairmen represent Russia, the united States and France.
From: A. Papazian