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    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Jan 6 2014

    France spares no effort for speedy, peaceful resolution to
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

    6 January 2014, 09:44 (GMT+04:00)
    By Sara Rajabova


    French ambassador to Baku Pascal Monnier has said that France will
    spare no effort for a speedy and peaceful settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    Although the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was gone too far, but everyone
    hopes for a speedy resolution of the conflict and dreams of a peaceful
    settlement, he said in an interview with AzerTag news agency.

    "Observers believe that new hopes was fostered during the Vienna
    meeting of presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serj Sargsyan and this is a
    manifestation of the political will to meet in the new year," Monnier
    added.

    The presidents met in Vienna on November 19, along with the co-chairs
    of the OSCE Minsk Group, to eye the ways to resolve the
    Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

    Noting the recent Kyiv meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign
    ministers, Monnier said new meeting of the two ministers in Paris in
    late January is on the agenda.

    "Thus, the positive trend is noticed in negotiations," he added.

    "We've accepted the civil society representatives of Azerbaijan and
    Armenia in Strasbourg," he said.

    He said they will meet again in Paris in 2014 and intend to prepare
    the declaration proposed for approval.

    "The hopes are high for resolution the conflict, but the problem
    should be approached with real and careful. In any case, France will
    not spare efforts in this positive development," Monnier 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.

    Long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been
    largely fruitless so far.

    The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
    withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
    enforced to this day.

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