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OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS DISCUSS NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION WITH ARMENIAN FM
Trend
Sept 22 2011
Azerbaijan
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group discussed process of resolution
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian, Mediamax reported.
Nalbandian met with the Russian and U.S. co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group Igor Popov and Robert Bradtke, as well as OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk in New York.
The sides discussed fulfillment of agreements on the mechanism
of investigation of incidents at the contact line, reached at a
trilateral meeting of the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents
in Astrakhan in October 2010.
As a result of the talks between the presidents of Azerbaijan,
Russia and Armenia Ilham Aliyev, Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan
in Astrakhan, the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - Azerbaijan
and Armenia signed the declaration on Oct. 27, 2010. It provides for
the return of prisoners of war. It is of humanitarian nature.
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 United
States - 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 surrounding
regions.
Trend
Sept 22 2011
Azerbaijan
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group discussed process of resolution
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with the Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian, Mediamax reported.
Nalbandian met with the Russian and U.S. co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group Igor Popov and Robert Bradtke, as well as OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk in New York.
The sides discussed fulfillment of agreements on the mechanism
of investigation of incidents at the contact line, reached at a
trilateral meeting of the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents
in Astrakhan in October 2010.
As a result of the talks between the presidents of Azerbaijan,
Russia and Armenia Ilham Aliyev, Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan
in Astrakhan, the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - Azerbaijan
and Armenia signed the declaration on Oct. 27, 2010. It provides for
the return of prisoners of war. It is of humanitarian nature.
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 United
States - 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 surrounding
regions.