Kerry says Washington, Moscow working on resolving Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The United States and Russia are working on a number of different issues, including on resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview with NBC.
Kerry met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on July 14 and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov July 15.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, the Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.
Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France, and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs dubbed the Madrid Principles. However, the negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.
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