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Russia hosts Azeri, Armenian talks
The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have held their fifth meeting for a peace agreement in the Russian resort city of Sochi as Moscow pushes the sides to resolve their longstanding conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“The negotiations were very useful; the parties viewed the concrete proposals of the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] co-chairs,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the meeting. “There is a common understanding and all this has been covered in the preamble of the documents.”
The meeting was between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, his Armenian counterpart, Serge Sarkisian, and their Russian host, Dmitry Medvedev.
According to Lavrov, the most important result of the negotiations was that the parties would prepare their formulas for the uncoordinated issues, which would then be included in the document. “The parties had open talks and we are sure that it will help the co-chairs in their future activity. The negotiations were useful and the presidents agreed to continue the dialogue,” the Azeri Press Agency, or APA, quoted him as saying.
Peaceful solution
Lavrov said Aliyev and Sarkisian continued the negotiations in the previous formats, with the dialogue strengthened by the efforts of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to find a peaceful solution to the Karabakh conflict.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an enclave in Azerbaijan that has been occupied by Armenian forces since the end of a six-year conflict that left about 30,000 people dead and 1 million displaced before a truce was reached in 1994. The region’s unilateral independence is not recognized by the international community. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been negotiating on the issue under the OSCE, but little progress has been made in the talks.
The Karabakh conflict is also a core issue affecting the recent normalization efforts between Turkey and Armenia, with the Ankara government saying any reopening of the countries’ border crossing and establishment of normalized ties should run parallel with resolving the dispute over the mountainous enclave.
Azerbaijan says Turkey has given guarantees that the border won’t be re-opened until Armenia’s occupation of Karabakh is resolved.
Source: Hurriyet Daily News
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=russia-hosts-azeri-armenian-talks-2010-01-25
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January 2010
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