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Armenia, Azerbaijan sign declaration in Russia mediated Karabakh talks
Hurriyet
A joint declaration signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan on Sunday, in Moscow said the two sides would “continue their work… to agree on a political settlement in the negotiating process.”
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan called for a “peaceful resolution” to their dispute over the province of Nagorno-Karabakh on the basis of “binding international guarantees,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said after talks near Moscow.
The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began in 1988 on Armenian territorial claims over Azerbaijan.
Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts, displacing 10 percent of the Azeri population in the series of bloody clashes both between and within the two neighboring countries.
In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are currently holding peaceful negotiations.
Nearly 30,000 were killed in the 1990s war over the enclave and soldiers on both sides continue to exchange sporadic fire, claiming lives.
MEDVEDEV MEDIATED TALKS
Medvedev, who in August oversaw Russia’s war with Georgia — which borders both Armenia and Azerbaijan — launched a fresh push in October to end the long-simmering conflict during a visit to Armenia and was to broker the peace talks, the Kremlin said.
At the meeting Sargsyan said he was ready for talks with Azerbaijan on the basis of principles worked out at negotiations in Madrid last year under a plan that would give Nagorno-Karabakh the right to self-determination, AFP reported.
The Kremlin would act as guarantor of a new accord, an administration official was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Analysts say Moscow is keen to maintain influence in Armenia, its main ally in the Caucasus, after the conflict between Russia and U.S.-allied Georgia in August raised tensions throughout the region.
The August war, which began when Georgia attacked its own breakaway enclave of South Ossetia, raised fears of similar violence in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Russia would be prepared to support a resolution to problem that suits both sides and act as guarantor if a compromise deal is reached,” the unnamed Kremlin official said, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Source: arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=10265772
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November 2008
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