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U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT HAILS UPCOMING AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA MEETING
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Nov 1 2013
18 November 2013, 13:10 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
The U.S. State Department hailed the upcoming meeting of the
Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents.
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents have it in their power to launch
comprehensive settlement talks, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland said in her speech at
the Atlantic Council in Washington on November 14.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Armenia Serzh
Sargsyan agreed to meet in late November to discuss the settlement
of the long-lasting conflict.
Nuland called the upcoming meeting of the two countries' presidents
a positive development.
Nuland said that the U.S. would continue to cooperate with Russia on
solving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"Russia has long been a partner of the United States on a number of
issues where we can work together. I think our overall approach remains
to try to cooperate with Russia as much as we can on as many issues
as we can that we share, whether they`re bilateral issues, whether
they`re regional issues like Nagorno-Karabakh, or whether they`re
global issues like Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, et cetera," Nuland said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early
1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed
forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
regions.
The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal
have not been enforced to this day.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE
Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed
by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The
negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Nov 1 2013
18 November 2013, 13:10 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
The U.S. State Department hailed the upcoming meeting of the
Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents.
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents have it in their power to launch
comprehensive settlement talks, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland said in her speech at
the Atlantic Council in Washington on November 14.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Armenia Serzh
Sargsyan agreed to meet in late November to discuss the settlement
of the long-lasting conflict.
Nuland called the upcoming meeting of the two countries' presidents
a positive development.
Nuland said that the U.S. would continue to cooperate with Russia on
solving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"Russia has long been a partner of the United States on a number of
issues where we can work together. I think our overall approach remains
to try to cooperate with Russia as much as we can on as many issues
as we can that we share, whether they`re bilateral issues, whether
they`re regional issues like Nagorno-Karabakh, or whether they`re
global issues like Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, et cetera," Nuland said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early
1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed
forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
regions.
The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal
have not been enforced to this day.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE
Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed
by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The
negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.