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YEREVAN TO CONTINUE EFFORTS ON PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT - FOREIGN MINISTRY
YEREVAN, December 4. /ARKA/. Yerevan will continue its efforts with
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to achieve a settlement of Karabakh
conflict exclusively by peaceful means, Armenia's minister of foreign
affairs Edward Nalbandyan said at his meeting with the mediators
in Switzerland.
The meeting with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), James
Warlick (USA), Pierre Andrieu (France) and Personal Representative
to OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andjey Kasprshik took place in Basel
on Thursday.
The sides discussed further advancement of the Karabakh peace process,
the press office of Armenia's foreign ministry reports.
Nalbandyan noted that Azerbaijan has escalated its military rhetoric
on a high level over the last weeks and is making statements that
distort the content of the talks, along with gross violations of the
ceasefire on the contact line with Armenia and with Artsakh that lead
to casualties.
On November 12, Azerbaijani troops shot down a MI-24 Karabakh
helicopter that was carrying out a training flight near the line of
contact. Following Azerbaijan's refusal to allow access to the site
for recovering the bodies of the three killed pilots, Karabakh Army of
Defense resorted to a special operation and recovered the body of one
and remains of the two other pilots from the crash site on November 22.
The Karabakh conflict started in 1988 when prevailingly Armenian
population of Nagorno-Karabakh declared withdrawal from Azerbaijan. In
a referendum on December 10, 1991, 99.89% of Nagorno-Karabakh
population voted for independence from Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan responded by large-scale military operations that led
to loss of control not only over Nagorno-Karabakh itself, but also
over seven adjoining areas. About 25-30 thousand people were killed
and about a million had to leave their homes during the military
operations.
A trilateral cease-fire agreement was signed on May 12, 2004, and has
been followed since then. The ongoing Karabakh peace process started
in 1992 under auspices of OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by the USA,
Russia and France. -0--
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From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, December 4. /ARKA/. Yerevan will continue its efforts with
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to achieve a settlement of Karabakh
conflict exclusively by peaceful means, Armenia's minister of foreign
affairs Edward Nalbandyan said at his meeting with the mediators
in Switzerland.
The meeting with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), James
Warlick (USA), Pierre Andrieu (France) and Personal Representative
to OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andjey Kasprshik took place in Basel
on Thursday.
The sides discussed further advancement of the Karabakh peace process,
the press office of Armenia's foreign ministry reports.
Nalbandyan noted that Azerbaijan has escalated its military rhetoric
on a high level over the last weeks and is making statements that
distort the content of the talks, along with gross violations of the
ceasefire on the contact line with Armenia and with Artsakh that lead
to casualties.
On November 12, Azerbaijani troops shot down a MI-24 Karabakh
helicopter that was carrying out a training flight near the line of
contact. Following Azerbaijan's refusal to allow access to the site
for recovering the bodies of the three killed pilots, Karabakh Army of
Defense resorted to a special operation and recovered the body of one
and remains of the two other pilots from the crash site on November 22.
The Karabakh conflict started in 1988 when prevailingly Armenian
population of Nagorno-Karabakh declared withdrawal from Azerbaijan. In
a referendum on December 10, 1991, 99.89% of Nagorno-Karabakh
population voted for independence from Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan responded by large-scale military operations that led
to loss of control not only over Nagorno-Karabakh itself, but also
over seven adjoining areas. About 25-30 thousand people were killed
and about a million had to leave their homes during the military
operations.
A trilateral cease-fire agreement was signed on May 12, 2004, and has
been followed since then. The ongoing Karabakh peace process started
in 1992 under auspices of OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by the USA,
Russia and France. -0--
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/yerevan_to_continue_efforts_on_peaceful_settlement _of_karabakh_conflict_foreign_ministry/#sthash.cTKYYMHI.dpuf
From: A. Papazian