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NO BREAKTHROUGHS REPORTED IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH TALKS
Monsters and Critics.com
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1686924.php/No-breakthroughs-reported-in-Nagorno-Karabakh-talks
Jan 23 2012
Moscow - Discussions between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on the
disputed status of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave have failed to produce
significant progress, according to news reports Monday.
The talks in the Russian mountain resort city of Krasnaya Polyana, some
1,350 kilometres south of Moscow, were the tenth round of trilateral
discussions on the status of the Caucasian region, which obtained de
facto independence from Azerbaijan in a civil war that ended in 1994.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held private talks with both Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev before
the three leaders met together, the Interfax news agency reported.
An official statement later referred only to progress on 'the General
Principles of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.'
In the first round of the talks, in 2008, Russia proposed ending the
conflict by giving Baku control over Nagorno-Karabakh, while at the
same time allowing the territory broad self-government rights.
A 2008 draft agreement also suggested Russia deploy peacekeepers to
the region and head up a programme to draw international investment.
Differences on the degree of control Azerbaijan would receive over
Nagorno-Karabakh, the creation of a road corridor connecting the
region with Armenia, repatriation of war refugees, and the possible
presence of peacekeepers other than from Russia, are among the issues
that have blocked a signing of the draft agreement.
Nagorno-Karabakh is heavily populated by ethnic Armenians who adhere
to the Orthodox Christian faith, while a majority of Azerbaijan's
population is ethnic Azeris following the Sunni branch of Islam.
Monsters and Critics.com
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1686924.php/No-breakthroughs-reported-in-Nagorno-Karabakh-talks
Jan 23 2012
Moscow - Discussions between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on the
disputed status of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave have failed to produce
significant progress, according to news reports Monday.
The talks in the Russian mountain resort city of Krasnaya Polyana, some
1,350 kilometres south of Moscow, were the tenth round of trilateral
discussions on the status of the Caucasian region, which obtained de
facto independence from Azerbaijan in a civil war that ended in 1994.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held private talks with both Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev before
the three leaders met together, the Interfax news agency reported.
An official statement later referred only to progress on 'the General
Principles of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.'
In the first round of the talks, in 2008, Russia proposed ending the
conflict by giving Baku control over Nagorno-Karabakh, while at the
same time allowing the territory broad self-government rights.
A 2008 draft agreement also suggested Russia deploy peacekeepers to
the region and head up a programme to draw international investment.
Differences on the degree of control Azerbaijan would receive over
Nagorno-Karabakh, the creation of a road corridor connecting the
region with Armenia, repatriation of war refugees, and the possible
presence of peacekeepers other than from Russia, are among the issues
that have blocked a signing of the draft agreement.
Nagorno-Karabakh is heavily populated by ethnic Armenians who adhere
to the Orthodox Christian faith, while a majority of Azerbaijan's
population is ethnic Azeris following the Sunni branch of Islam.