Garabagh negotiators hold talks with Azeri leaders
OSCE mediators brokering settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan
conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh have started another visit
to the region from Baku. The visit aims to set the stage for the
next meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders.
The co-chairs - Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States – met with President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday. The current state of peace talks and prospects for settling the long-standing conflict were discussed, according to the presidential press-service. The intermediaries also had talks with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
The co-chairs will continue discussing Garabagh settlement in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Friday.
The latest meeting between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkisian was held in Chisinau, Moldova in October 8 and was described by the mediators as constructive.
Armenia and Azerbaijan waged a war over the mountainous region of Upper Garabagh in the early 1990s, which claimed some 30,000 lives and displaced about a million Azerbaijanis. Armenia has been occupying over 20% of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territory since then. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but the OSCE-brokered peace talks have been fruitless so far.*
The co-chairs - Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States – met with President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday. The current state of peace talks and prospects for settling the long-standing conflict were discussed, according to the presidential press-service. The intermediaries also had talks with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
The co-chairs will continue discussing Garabagh settlement in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Friday.
The latest meeting between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkisian was held in Chisinau, Moldova in October 8 and was described by the mediators as constructive.
Armenia and Azerbaijan waged a war over the mountainous region of Upper Garabagh in the early 1990s, which claimed some 30,000 lives and displaced about a million Azerbaijanis. Armenia has been occupying over 20% of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territory since then. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but the OSCE-brokered peace talks have been fruitless so far.*
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