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NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT REMAINS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE SECURITY OF THE REGION, US ASSISTANT AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN SAYS
arminfo
Friday, October 19, 11:43
The Nagorno Karabakh conflict remains the biggest threat to the
security of the region, US Assistant Ambassador to Azerbaijan Adam
Sterling says, Trend reports.
Sterling delivered a speech at the international conference on the
role of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States in
ensuring peace and security in the region.
He said the United States will continue efforts for Azerbaijan and
Armenia to come to peaceful settlement of the conflict. "Washington's
position is changeless. The United States supports peaceful settlement
of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We will continue efforts for the
peaceful settlement of the problem", Sterling said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians.
In 1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in mediation
of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Protocol on
Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far. Since 1992 the OSCE
Minsk Group represented by co- chairs from Russia, U.S. and France has
been mediating in resolution of the conflict unleashed by Azerbaijan
in 1988. At present the peace process is based on the Madrid Principles
suggested by the OSCE MG in 2007 in Madrid and renovated in 2009.
arminfo
Friday, October 19, 11:43
The Nagorno Karabakh conflict remains the biggest threat to the
security of the region, US Assistant Ambassador to Azerbaijan Adam
Sterling says, Trend reports.
Sterling delivered a speech at the international conference on the
role of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States in
ensuring peace and security in the region.
He said the United States will continue efforts for Azerbaijan and
Armenia to come to peaceful settlement of the conflict. "Washington's
position is changeless. The United States supports peaceful settlement
of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We will continue efforts for the
peaceful settlement of the problem", Sterling said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians.
In 1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in mediation
of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Protocol on
Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far. Since 1992 the OSCE
Minsk Group represented by co- chairs from Russia, U.S. and France has
been mediating in resolution of the conflict unleashed by Azerbaijan
in 1988. At present the peace process is based on the Madrid Principles
suggested by the OSCE MG in 2007 in Madrid and renovated in 2009.