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NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT MULLED IN NEW YORK
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Sept 24 2014
24 September 2014, 12:04 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijan's foreign minister and U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
discussed the ways of settling Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict.
Elmar Mammadyarov met with co-chair James Warlick on September 23
on the sidelines of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly,
the Azerbaijani foreign ministry reported.
Mammadyarov leads the Azerbaijani delegation visiting New York to
take part in the UN General Assembly session.
The minister reiterated Azerbaijan's position on settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He stressed that first and foremost,
Armenian armed forces must be withdrawn from the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan for the resolution of the conflict.
Prior to the meeting with the Azerbaijani side, Warlick wrote on his
Twitter page that Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers will meet
with the Minsk Group co-chairs to mull Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which
emerged in 1988 over Armenia's 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.
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.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Sept 24 2014
24 September 2014, 12:04 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Azerbaijan's foreign minister and U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
discussed the ways of settling Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict.
Elmar Mammadyarov met with co-chair James Warlick on September 23
on the sidelines of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly,
the Azerbaijani foreign ministry reported.
Mammadyarov leads the Azerbaijani delegation visiting New York to
take part in the UN General Assembly session.
The minister reiterated Azerbaijan's position on settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He stressed that first and foremost,
Armenian armed forces must be withdrawn from the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan for the resolution of the conflict.
Prior to the meeting with the Azerbaijani side, Warlick wrote on his
Twitter page that Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers will meet
with the Minsk Group co-chairs to mull Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which
emerged in 1988 over Armenia's 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.
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.