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FRANCE WELCOMES DECLARATION ON POWS SWAP BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN
Tert.am
29.10.10
France has welcomed the joint statement over the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict made by Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents at
a recent meeting in the Russian city of Astrakhan, according to a
statement issued by the French Foreign Ministry.
Together with US and Russia France co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group
currently spearheads the peace talks over the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
Paris has also welcomed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's "personal
efforts" in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
"The measures coordinated between the parties in Astrakhan can help
ease tension and reduce the incidents of the ceasefire violation
that have become of frequent occurrence in the recent months. For
that reason France expects that those measures will be implemented
without any delay," read the statement.
In a next round of peace talks on October 27 held in the Russian
southern city of Astrakhan Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh
Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev reaffirmed the provisions of the declaration
adopted on November 2, 2008 in Meiendorf, Russia.
They also underscored that additional steps are necessary to take
to strengthen the ceasefire regime and mutual trust in the military
sphere in an attempt to solve the conflict peacefully.
They two presidents also signed a declaration to exchange prisoners
of war and return the corpses of soldiers and civilians killed on
the line of contact.
The conflict between the two former Soviet countries over Nagorno
Karabakh started when Karabakhi Armenians voiced their intention
to live independently from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. It was
followed by pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait, Baku and Nagorno
Karabakh that turned into a bloody war, leaving around 30,000 killed
and more than a million displaced.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
29.10.10
France has welcomed the joint statement over the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict made by Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents at
a recent meeting in the Russian city of Astrakhan, according to a
statement issued by the French Foreign Ministry.
Together with US and Russia France co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group
currently spearheads the peace talks over the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
Paris has also welcomed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's "personal
efforts" in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
"The measures coordinated between the parties in Astrakhan can help
ease tension and reduce the incidents of the ceasefire violation
that have become of frequent occurrence in the recent months. For
that reason France expects that those measures will be implemented
without any delay," read the statement.
In a next round of peace talks on October 27 held in the Russian
southern city of Astrakhan Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh
Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev reaffirmed the provisions of the declaration
adopted on November 2, 2008 in Meiendorf, Russia.
They also underscored that additional steps are necessary to take
to strengthen the ceasefire regime and mutual trust in the military
sphere in an attempt to solve the conflict peacefully.
They two presidents also signed a declaration to exchange prisoners
of war and return the corpses of soldiers and civilians killed on
the line of contact.
The conflict between the two former Soviet countries over Nagorno
Karabakh started when Karabakhi Armenians voiced their intention
to live independently from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. It was
followed by pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait, Baku and Nagorno
Karabakh that turned into a bloody war, leaving around 30,000 killed
and more than a million displaced.
From: A. Papazian