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    OSCE MINSK GROUP HAILS ARMENIA'S COMMITMENT TO REDUCING TENSION ON BORDER WITH AZERBAIJAN

    YEREVAN, February 6. / ARKA /. The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs from
    the USA, France and Russia welcomed Armenia's commitment to reducing
    tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, the US co-chair James
    Warlick wrote in his Twitter microblog.

    "We had a good meeting with Armenian foreign minister Edward
    Nalbandian on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to
    discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. We welcomed his commitment to
    the reduction of tension in the conflict zone," he wrote, according
    to RIA Novosti. He also posted a photo of the meeting.

    Nalbandian's meeting with Igor Popov (Russia), Pierre Andrieu (France)
    and James Warlick (USA), as well as the Personal Representative of
    the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk took place on Thursday
    night in Munich.

    During the meeting Nalbandian drew the co-chairs' attention to
    violation of ceasefire by Azerbaijan on the border with Armenia and
    on the line of contact with the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    According to him, the leadership of Azerbaijan "hampers the peace
    process." At the same time, Nalbandian confirmed that Armenia
    will continue joint efforts with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
    Grouptowards a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh problem.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the
    collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly
    Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan, sought to secede from
    Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by succeeding
    referendum. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no
    permanent peace agreement has been signed.

    Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been
    under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh
    is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued
    to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with
    snipers causing tens of deaths a year.-0-

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