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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AND MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS DISCUSS KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS
YEREVAN, February 17. / ARKA /. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met
Tuesday with visiting OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov (Russia),
James Warlick (USA) and Pierre Andre (France), as well as with personal
representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Sargsyan's press office said the co-chairs shared their impressions
of the meetings they had in Azerbaijan. It said the president and the
peace brokers discussed then a set of issues related to the current
status of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
It said president Sargsyan welcomed the statement the co-chairs
issued on January 27 in Krakow that was different from their previous
statements calling on Azerbaijan to observe its commitments to the
peaceful settlement of the conflict and expressing also their serious
concern about reported incursions across the line of contact and the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border, resulting in casualties.
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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YEREVAN, February 17. / ARKA /. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met
Tuesday with visiting OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov (Russia),
James Warlick (USA) and Pierre Andre (France), as well as with personal
representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Sargsyan's press office said the co-chairs shared their impressions
of the meetings they had in Azerbaijan. It said the president and the
peace brokers discussed then a set of issues related to the current
status of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
It said president Sargsyan welcomed the statement the co-chairs
issued on January 27 in Krakow that was different from their previous
statements calling on Azerbaijan to observe its commitments to the
peaceful settlement of the conflict and expressing also their serious
concern about reported incursions across the line of contact and the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border, resulting in casualties.
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-
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/armenian_president_and_minsk_group_co_chairs_discu ss_karabakh_peace_process/#sthash.mYoWTGw7.dpuf