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July 23 2014
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in spotlight in EU meeting
23 July 2014, 11:43 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani foreign minister and co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group
mulled the settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in
Brussels.
Elmar Mammadyarov met with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in the
sidelines of the fifth meeting of the foreign ministers of member
countries of the EU "Eastern Partnership" on July 22, Azerbaijani
foreign ministry said.
They discussed the ways of speeding up the process of finding a
solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of the known
principles and the co-chairs' statements.
The fact that the presidents of the co-chair countries have repeatedly
underlined the unacceptability of the status-quo was stressed at the
meeting.
The co-chairmen also met with Armenian foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian on July 22.
Following the meeting with the foreign ministers, U.S. co-chairman of
OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick wrote on his Twitter page that the
co-chairmen will issue a statement concerned about new violence on the
contact line of Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing
efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely
fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
July 23 2014
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in spotlight in EU meeting
23 July 2014, 11:43 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani foreign minister and co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group
mulled the settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in
Brussels.
Elmar Mammadyarov met with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in the
sidelines of the fifth meeting of the foreign ministers of member
countries of the EU "Eastern Partnership" on July 22, Azerbaijani
foreign ministry said.
They discussed the ways of speeding up the process of finding a
solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of the known
principles and the co-chairs' statements.
The fact that the presidents of the co-chair countries have repeatedly
underlined the unacceptability of the status-quo was stressed at the
meeting.
The co-chairmen also met with Armenian foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian on July 22.
Following the meeting with the foreign ministers, U.S. co-chairman of
OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick wrote on his Twitter page that the
co-chairmen will issue a statement concerned about new violence on the
contact line of Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing
efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely
fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.