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    TURKISH, RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS TO DISCUSS KARABAKH

    news.az
    Aug 18, 2011
    Azerbaijan

    Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his Russian counterpart, Dmitriy
    Medvedev, are to discuss the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over
    Karabakh.

    The subject will be part of discussions during the Turkish president's
    visit to Russia in September, where he wiill attend a Global Policy
    Forum in Yaroslavl on the 7th to the 8th, Turkish newspaper Zaman
    reported.

    The presidents are also expected to discuss Iran's nuclear program,
    Afghanistan and the international situation.

    Dmitriy Medvedev has been trying to mediate a solution to the Karabakh
    conflict, holding several meetings between the Azerbaijani and Armenian
    presidents in the past two years. After the most recent meeting in
    Kazan on 25 June failed to produce a breakthrough in the talks, the
    Russian leader had a one-to-one meeting with Azerbaijani President
    Ilham Aliyev in Sochi.

    Details of the meeting have not been made public, but some commentators
    say that Russia is proposing to send its own peacekeepers to Karabakh.

    Baku's recent announcement that President Aliyev will not attend the
    CIS summit of heads of state in Tajikistan on 2-3 September has been
    interpreted as a sign of displeasure at Russia's Karabakh proposals.

    The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh began in 1988 when Armenia made
    claims on the Azerbaijani territory. In a bitter war Armenian armed
    forces occupied a swathe of Azerbaijani territory, including the
    Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. Despite a
    ceasefire in 1994, no long-term peace agreement has been reached.

    The nub of the conflict remains unresolved - the competing claims of
    territorial integrity, which Azerbaijan insists takes precedence in
    the case of Karabakh, and self-determination, which Armenia wants to
    see for the Armenians of Karabakh.

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