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ANKARA WELCOMES ASTRAKHAN DEAL ON KARABAKH TALKS
Today's Zaman
Nov 1 2010
Turkey
The Turkish capital has welcomed the results of a trilateral meeting
hosted last week by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, at which
the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on
certain humanitarian issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute,
a territorial dispute between Baku and Yerevan.
"Turkey hopes that the Astrahan summit will make a positive
contribution to the resolution process via accelerating efforts for
the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; within this framework,
it hopes that steps to be taken in humanitarian field will be supported
and strengthened via similar measures to be improved in other fields,"
the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement released
on Sunday.
The latest round of talks held between Armenian President Serzh
Sarksyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in the Russian city of
Astrahan through Medvedev's initiative resulted in a joint declaration
in which the sides agreed on the need for confidence-building
measures, including a prisoners of war and human remains swap "with
the assistance of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group co-chairs and the International Committee
of the Red Cross."
At the end of the meeting, Medvedev said he hoped Baku and Yerevan
could agree on the principles of a long-awaited peace deal for the
breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh by early December.
From: A. Papazian
Today's Zaman
Nov 1 2010
Turkey
The Turkish capital has welcomed the results of a trilateral meeting
hosted last week by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, at which
the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on
certain humanitarian issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute,
a territorial dispute between Baku and Yerevan.
"Turkey hopes that the Astrahan summit will make a positive
contribution to the resolution process via accelerating efforts for
the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; within this framework,
it hopes that steps to be taken in humanitarian field will be supported
and strengthened via similar measures to be improved in other fields,"
the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement released
on Sunday.
The latest round of talks held between Armenian President Serzh
Sarksyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in the Russian city of
Astrahan through Medvedev's initiative resulted in a joint declaration
in which the sides agreed on the need for confidence-building
measures, including a prisoners of war and human remains swap "with
the assistance of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group co-chairs and the International Committee
of the Red Cross."
At the end of the meeting, Medvedev said he hoped Baku and Yerevan
could agree on the principles of a long-awaited peace deal for the
breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh by early December.
From: A. Papazian