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Press TV, Iran
Aug 9 2014
Putin meets one-on-one with counterparts over Karabakh
Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun talks with the leaders of
Armenia and Azerbaijan over the settlement of the Nagorny-Karabakh
dispute.
Putin met separately with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan in Russia's southern Black Sea town
of Sochi on Saturday.
"We will no doubt talk about the most painful and chronic problem of
resolving the Karabakh," Putin said at the start of his meeting with
Aliyev.
Kremlin spokesman Dmtiry Peskov said that a joint meeting of all three
leaders on Sunday was possible and that both the Armenian and
Azerbaijani leaders, "expressed concern about a rise in tension
connected with the incidents of recent days that have claimed
lives..."
On August 6, Azerbaijan Republic's Defense Ministry said at least 14
of its soldiers had been killed in multiple confrontations between
Azeri government forces and ethnic Armenians, which began on 30 July.
There have been reportedly no casualties or injuries on the Armenian
side.
Both the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia claim the territory of
Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in
Azerbaijan. It accounts for 16 percent of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave in the early 1990s
during a six-year war with Azerbaijan that took place from February
1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million
displaced before the two sides agreed to a cease-fire in 1994.
However, a peace accord has never been signed and the dispute still
remains unsettled.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/09/374695/putin-mediates-nagornykarabakh-dispute/
Aug 9 2014
Putin meets one-on-one with counterparts over Karabakh
Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun talks with the leaders of
Armenia and Azerbaijan over the settlement of the Nagorny-Karabakh
dispute.
Putin met separately with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan in Russia's southern Black Sea town
of Sochi on Saturday.
"We will no doubt talk about the most painful and chronic problem of
resolving the Karabakh," Putin said at the start of his meeting with
Aliyev.
Kremlin spokesman Dmtiry Peskov said that a joint meeting of all three
leaders on Sunday was possible and that both the Armenian and
Azerbaijani leaders, "expressed concern about a rise in tension
connected with the incidents of recent days that have claimed
lives..."
On August 6, Azerbaijan Republic's Defense Ministry said at least 14
of its soldiers had been killed in multiple confrontations between
Azeri government forces and ethnic Armenians, which began on 30 July.
There have been reportedly no casualties or injuries on the Armenian
side.
Both the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia claim the territory of
Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in
Azerbaijan. It accounts for 16 percent of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave in the early 1990s
during a six-year war with Azerbaijan that took place from February
1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million
displaced before the two sides agreed to a cease-fire in 1994.
However, a peace accord has never been signed and the dispute still
remains unsettled.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/09/374695/putin-mediates-nagornykarabakh-dispute/