By Trend
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will visit Azerbaijan on Feb. 6,
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend
on February 2.
The meetings with Azerbaijani officials will be held on Feb. 7,
said Hajiyev.
Intensive and constructive discussions on the settlement of the
Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will continue during
the visit, noted the spokesman.
The latest meeting of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, Andrew Schofer
(USA), Stefan Visconti (France) and Igor Popov (Russia), and
Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE
Chairperson-in-Office with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov was held in Poland’s Krakow city on Jan. 18.
Following the Baku visit, the OSCE MG co-chairs will visit
Yerevan.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in
1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a
result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied
20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council
resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the
Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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