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KARABAKH MEDIATORS START VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN
News.Az
Mon 05 March 2012 09:05 GMT | 9:05 Local Time
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have arrived in Baku on the
final leg of a visit to the Karabakh conflict region.
"We met with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan. At the end
of the week we held meetings in Nagorno-Karabakh," the US co-chair
of the OSCE Minsk Group, Robert Bradtke, told journalists at Heydar
Aliyev International Airport, APA reports.
Bradtke said the mediators would meet Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev today and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov tomorrow.
He said that the latest visit was following up on implementation of
the statement made by the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian presidents
in Sochi at the end of January.
In that statement, the presidents said that progress had been made
in reaching agreement on the basic principles of a Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement. The statement was positive about the need for more public
contacts between the two sides in order to build confidence and about
the creation of a mechanism to investigate violations of the ceasefire
along the contact line separating Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.
The Minsk Group co-chairs declined to answer journalists' questions
in Baku today.
The three co-chairs - Robert Bradtke of the USA, Jacques Faure of
France and Igor Popov of Russia, accompanied by Andrzej Kasprzyk,
personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, visited
Yerevan and breakaway Karabakh at the end of the week.
They held talks with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian, and with Bako Sahakyan, leader of the
unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic.
The Karabakh conflict began in 1988 when Armenia made claims on the
Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. In a bitter war Armenian
armed forces occupied a swathe of Azerbaijani land, 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
News.Az
Mon 05 March 2012 09:05 GMT | 9:05 Local Time
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have arrived in Baku on the
final leg of a visit to the Karabakh conflict region.
"We met with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan. At the end
of the week we held meetings in Nagorno-Karabakh," the US co-chair
of the OSCE Minsk Group, Robert Bradtke, told journalists at Heydar
Aliyev International Airport, APA reports.
Bradtke said the mediators would meet Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev today and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov tomorrow.
He said that the latest visit was following up on implementation of
the statement made by the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian presidents
in Sochi at the end of January.
In that statement, the presidents said that progress had been made
in reaching agreement on the basic principles of a Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement. The statement was positive about the need for more public
contacts between the two sides in order to build confidence and about
the creation of a mechanism to investigate violations of the ceasefire
along the contact line separating Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.
The Minsk Group co-chairs declined to answer journalists' questions
in Baku today.
The three co-chairs - Robert Bradtke of the USA, Jacques Faure of
France and Igor Popov of Russia, accompanied by Andrzej Kasprzyk,
personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, visited
Yerevan and breakaway Karabakh at the end of the week.
They held talks with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian, and with Bako Sahakyan, leader of the
unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic.
The Karabakh conflict began in 1988 when Armenia made claims on the
Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. In a bitter war Armenian
armed forces occupied a swathe of Azerbaijani land, 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress