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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.
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.