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    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT URGES ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN TO SPEED UP KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

    YEREVAN, January 10. /ARKA/. President of the European Parliament
    Martin Schulz urged today Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders to speed up
    Karabakh conflict settlement.

    Schulz was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying at his meeting with
    Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan in Brussels that
    the conflicting sides should refrain from statements which can escalate
    tension, RIA Novosti reports.

    Karabakh conflict broke out in 1988 when Karabakh, mainly populated
    by Armenians, declared its independence from Azerbaijan.

    On December 10, 1991, a few days after the collapse of the Soviet
    Union, a referendum took place in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the majority
    of the population (99.89%) voted for secession from Azerbaijan.

    Afterwards, large-scale military operations began. As a result,
    Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven regions
    adjacent to it.

    Some 30,000 people were killed in this war and about one million
    people fled their homes.

    On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the
    military operations.

    Since 1992, talks brokered by OSCE Minsk Group are being held over
    peaceful settlement of the conflict. The group is co-chaired by USA,
    Russia and France. -0-

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