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Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
June 3, 2011 Friday
BRIEF: Azerbaijani FM, OSCE Minsk Group co-chair mull Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
BYLINE: S.Agayeva, Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
June 03--JUNE 3 / , Azerbaijan, Baku -- Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
Elmar Mammadyarov discussed settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,
Robert Bradtke, the ministry reported.
The meeting was held in the framework of Mammadyarov's visit to the
United States.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group -- Russia, France, and the U.S. --
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
June 3, 2011 Friday
BRIEF: Azerbaijani FM, OSCE Minsk Group co-chair mull Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
BYLINE: S.Agayeva, Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
June 03--JUNE 3 / , Azerbaijan, Baku -- Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
Elmar Mammadyarov discussed settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,
Robert Bradtke, the ministry reported.
The meeting was held in the framework of Mammadyarov's visit to the
United States.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group -- Russia, France, and the U.S. --
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.