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Putin: Russia to promote settlement of situation around Nagorno-Karabakh

15 March 2017 17:59 (UTC+04:00)
Putin: Russia to promote settlement of situation around Nagorno-Karabakh

By Rashid Shirinov

Russia continues to assist in the search of ways to resolve the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh, said Russian President Vladimir Putin following talks with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in Moscow on March 15.

“We paid a special attention to the topic of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement,” Putin said. “Russia continues to provide every assistance to the search for mutually acceptable solutions to the conflict both within the OSCE Minsk Group and through direct contacts with Yerevan and Baku.”

Russia along with the U.S. and France is one of the co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group established to broker a peace to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims to Azerbaijan. Since the 1990s war, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the occupied lands of Azerbaijan, but they have not been enforced to this day.

While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign State with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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