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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT MULLED IN UK

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    June 16 2014

    16 June 2014, 13:03 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Britain's Windsor town has hosted a conference on the
    Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    The three-day conference was held under a project of the Centre for
    Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham,
    AzerTag news agency reported.

    The project is financed by the Council of State Support to
    Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of Azerbaijan.

    Participants in the event included experts of the Centre for Russian
    and East European Studies, former diplomats, experts, professors at
    the Italian Verona, British Kent and Finnish Karelia universities.

    The second day of the conference featured a round table called "The
    Caucasus: the role of foreign and internal powers".

    It heard a report "The Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    through the prism of the British media" by a researcher at the Centre
    for Russian and East European Studies.

    The report criticized coverage of the conflict in the British media
    as unprofessional and biased, saying it was promoting Armenia`s
    groundless position.

    It expressed regret over the fact that the British media outlets did
    not feature Azerbaijan`s just position on the dispute. It also said
    the British media did not investigate the historic aspects of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which erupted back in 1988 when Armenia
    made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

    Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one
    million Azerbaijanis displaced, Armenian armed forces have occupied
    over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory,
    including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

    The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal
    have not been enforced to this day.

    Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE
    Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed
    by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The
    negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.




    From: A. Papazian
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