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NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT MULLED IN BAKU
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Oct 15 2014
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has discussed the settlement of
the long-lasting Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.
President Aliyev received co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor
Popov (Russia), Pierre Andrieu (France), Personal Representative
of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk and David Salvo
(the assistant co-chair from the U.S.) on October 15.
The sides mulled the issues related to the current state and prospects
of negotiations to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which emerged
in 1988 over Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Following the Baku visit, co-chairs will travel to Armenia.
During the OSCE monitoring on October 16, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs, Igor Popov (Russia), Pierre Andre (France), James Warlick
(US), as well as Warlick's assistant David Salvo and Igor Popov's
assistant Elena Kravchenko are expected to cross to the opposite side
of the contact line from the territories controlled by Azerbaijani
armed forces.
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.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Oct 15 2014
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has discussed the settlement of
the long-lasting Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.
President Aliyev received co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor
Popov (Russia), Pierre Andrieu (France), Personal Representative
of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk and David Salvo
(the assistant co-chair from the U.S.) on October 15.
The sides mulled the issues related to the current state and prospects
of negotiations to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which emerged
in 1988 over Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Following the Baku visit, co-chairs will travel to Armenia.
During the OSCE monitoring on October 16, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk and OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs, Igor Popov (Russia), Pierre Andre (France), James Warlick
(US), as well as Warlick's assistant David Salvo and Igor Popov's
assistant Elena Kravchenko are expected to cross to the opposite side
of the contact line from the territories controlled by Azerbaijani
armed forces.
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.