OSCE to hold monitoring on contact front line of Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces

Today.AZ

OSCE will hold a monitoring on the contact front line of Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces on the basis of the mandate of the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, said the press service for the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.

According to the press service, the monitoring will be held near Ashaghy Veyselli village of Khojavend, Azerbaijan.

The Azerbaijani side will be represented by the field assistants of the representative of the OSCE chairman Imre Palatinus, Irchi Aberle and Vladimir Chountulov.

Azerbaijani lands, occupied by Armenia, will be represented by personal representative of the OSCE chairman, ambassador Abzhey Kasprshik and his field assistants Peter Key and Antal Herdich.

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Armenian political scientist: “I do not see the driving force which could make Ilham Aliyev accept independence of Nagorno Karabakh”

Today.AZ

“Karabakh conflict will hardly be settled in the near future”, considers Armenian political scientist Sergey Shakaryantz.

 ”Though serious people announce the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict, I do not think that this issue will be settled within half a year or even within a year or five”, said Shakaryantz at a press conference Thursday.

He considers that the very important moment today is that the issue will be settled peacefully. Yet, he said there is no factor, which may influence Azerbaijan for it to make concessions.

“In this situation Azerbaijan must make concessions, as it is alone against Armenia and Karabakh. If superpowers are ready to influence on Azerbaijan so that to make it recognize independence of “NKR”, the issue will be settled very quickly. But I do not see any driving force, which could make reelected Ilham Aliyev accept independence of Karabakh”, said he. 

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Elman Mammadov: “Nobody represents Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh”

Today.AZ

“New leader of Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh will be determined according to law on public unions and NGOs”, MP Elman Mammadov, Deputy Chairman of the community told APA.

To him, the date of appointment is not yet known. Nobody represents Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno Karabakh at present. Nizami Bahmanov, Chairman of the community died in September, 2008.

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Progress made on Karabakh, says envoy

Reuters

Azerbaijan and Armenia are showing a new resolve to settle a conflict that could threaten oil exports to the West if it flares again into fighting, an international mediator said.

The ex-Soviet neighbors fought a war in the early 1990s over the mountainous territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Their troops still fight skirmishes there despite a ceasefire, and attempts to broker a peace deal have repeatedly foundered.

But the outlook for an agreement is now looking more positive because of a new rapport between the two countries’ presidents, said Matthew Bryza, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary State and one of three international mediators in the conflict.

“We can say there is progress,” Bryza told Reuters on late Thursday on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, in the Finnish capital. Armenian President Serge Sarkisian and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev have held two rounds of talks in the last six months and their foreign ministers met in Helsinki.

Positive mood
“The mood between presidents Aliyev and Sarkisian has improved, significantly,” said Bryza. “They both respect each other, number one, and are beginning to trust each other, number two. And, number three, they have expressed a willingness to be constructive, meaning take into account what the other side needs to reach a deal.”

“Both presidents said ‘OK, I think I’m ready to move ahead. Let’s try to finalise these basic principles (for a peace deal). I’m ready to work with my counterpart’.” He said there was still a lot of work to be done before fundamental differences between the two sides on the future of Nagorno-Karabakh could be bridged. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Since the fighting it — along with surrounding Azeri districts — have been under the de facto control of ethnic Armenian separatists, with support from Armenia. The fighting killed about 35,000 people and displaced around one million civilians, with most of them still unable to return to their homes nearly two decades later.

Source: arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=10518071

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Armenia, Azerbaijan decide to work on a lasting peace deal: Turkish FM

Hurriyet

Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers decided to work on a lasting peace agreement in their trilateral meeting with Turkish foreign minister on the sidelines of a OSCE summit.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan met Thursday his counterparts, Edward Nalbandian of Armenia and Elmar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan, on the sidelines of the OSCE meeting in Helsinki.

“I see this decision as an important one made to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute,” he was quoted by Anatolian Agency as telling reporters after he returned from Finland.

Babacan said representatives of five countries including Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan Russia and Armenia that were expected to set up the Caucasus Stability & Cooperation Platform, also met in Helsinki and exchanged views on the goals, principles, and mechanisms of the platform.

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Turkey not to open Armenia border until Azerbaijan’s integrity restored

Hurriyet

The Turkish-Armenian border could be opened only after Armenia gives up distorting history and restores Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, Turkish Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen said.

“We are open to developing relations with Armenia, to open borders, and to develop trade,” Tuzmen was quoted by Interfax as telling an Azeri-Turkish business forum in Baku on Thursday.

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Normalization of Turkish-Armenia relations to help Nagorno-Karabakh

Hurriyet

Better ties between Turkey and Armenia would help resolve the longstanding conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, said the Turkish foreign minister yesterday.

“The normalisation of Turkish-Armenian relations would have a positive impact on the Azerbaijan-Armenia talks over Nagorno-Karabakh,” Ali Babacan told reporters after a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Memmedyarov, in Baku.

The dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified through the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe’s, or OSCE, Minsk process, Babacan added. “The fact that parts of Azerbaijani territory are under Armenian occupation is a problem that needs to be urgently addressed. Turkey, one of 11 members of the Minsk group, attaches great importance to the process,” he said and added he hoped recent diplomatic traffic would yield results soon. Read the rest of this entry »

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