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  • EU won't recognise Nagorny Karabakh elections: Ashton

    Agence France Presse
    May 21, 2010 Friday 5:15 PM GMT

    EU won't recognise Nagorny Karabakh elections: Ashton

    brussels, May 21 2010


    As far as the European Union is concerned "parliamentary elections"
    planned in Azerbaijan's disputed Nagorny Karabakh region have no basis
    in law, the EU's foreign affairs chief said Friday.

    "The European Union does not recognise the constitutional and legal
    framework within which the "parliamentary elections" in Nagorny
    Karabakh will be held on Sunday, EU High Representative for foreign
    and security affairs Catherine Ashton said in a statement.

    "This event should not prejudice the peaceful settlement of the
    Nagorny Karabakh conflict," she added.

    Backed by Armenia, ethnic Armenian separatists seized control of
    Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s in a war that
    killed nearly 30,000 people and forced two million to flee their
    homes.

    Fifteen years after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire in their
    conflict over the Nagorny Karabakh region, the enclave remains a
    powderkeg in the strategically important South Caucasus.

    Ashton will meet with Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian in Brussels
    on Tuesday.

    She stressed Europe's "firm support" for work of the OSCE Minsk Group,
    co-chaired by France, Russia and the United States, which was created
    in 1992 to seek a negotiated resolution to the conflict between
    Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh.

    Ashton called on all parties involved "to redouble their efforts to
    find a negotiated solution to the conflict," adding that the European
    Union was ready to offer its own support to the process.
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