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    Press TV, Iran
    Aug 9 2014

    Russia mulls holding trilateral meeting on Karabakh


    Moscow says it is considering hosting a trilateral meeting between the
    presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijani to discuss the conflict
    over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

    Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir
    Putin as well as his Azeri and Armenian counterparts Ilham Aliyev and
    Serzh Sargsyan were expected to attend a sports event in the Russian
    city of Sochi on Sunday following Putin's separate meetings with the
    two men the day before.

    "We do not exclude that the three-party meeting will be held tomorrow
    (Sunday) afternoon," added the Russian official.

    Over the past days, tensions have been running high around
    Nagorno-Karabakh, which is claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan. The
    territory is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.

    Baku said earlier this week that at least 15 Azeri soldiers had been
    killed in multiple confrontations with ethnic Armenians on the Line of
    Contact in the disputed region, while Yerevan announced it had lost
    five men.

    Peskov further said all sides have expressed concern over the
    simmering tensions in recent days, adding that "the situation is
    indeed turbulent and unstable. The efforts are being taken now in
    order to reverse it."

    Earlier on Saturday, the Russian leader held separate talks with his
    Azeri and Armenian opposite numbers over the growing conflict.

    Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the disputed enclave, which
    accounts for 16 percent of Azerbaijan, in the early 1990s during a
    six-year war with the country. The war 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 ceasefire in 1994. However,
    a peace accord has never been signed and the dispute still remains
    unsettled.


    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/09/374701/russia-mulls-3way-meeting-on-karabakh/

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