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  • Medvedev Seeks Karabakh Deal By December

    Moscow Times
    Oct 27 2010

    ASTRAKHAN - President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that he hoped
    Azerbaijan and Armenia could reach agreement on the principles of a
    peace deal for breakaway region Nagorno-Karabakh by early December.

    Agreement on the so called "basic principles" for a future peace deal
    could pave the way for a resolution of the conflict over the region,
    indicating movement after years of failed diplomacy by Russia, the
    United States and France.

    A complete breakthrough, however, is considered a long way off as
    many sensitive issues still surround the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
    where fighting erupted two decades ago.

    Speaking after chairing talks in Astrakhan between Armenian President
    Serzh Sargsyan and his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, Medvedev said
    those principles could be ready by a meeting of the Organization for
    Security and Co-operation in Europe in Kazakhstan on Dec. 1 and 2.

    "We have come a certain way, which gives grounds to hope that if the
    sides work well over the next month," Medvedev said.

    "Then by the time of the OSCE summit in Kazakhstan on Dec. 1 and 2,
    we could reach an agreed variant of common regulation principles,"
    he said.

    Medvedev also said Armenia and Azerbaijan, which are still technically
    at war over Nagorno-Karabakh, had agreed to allow prisoner exchanges.

    Clashes have worsened since 2008 around the mountain enclave, where
    ethnic Armenian Christians, backed by Armenia, threw off rule by
    Muslim Azerbaijan as the Soviet Union collapsed two decades ago.




    From: A. Papazian
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