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OSCE chair to visit Azerbaijan

17 April 2014 17:11 (UTC+04:00)
OSCE chair to visit Azerbaijan

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan on June 3, a diplomatic source told Trend Agency on April 17.

During the visit, Burkhalter will meet with Azerbaijani officials. The meeting will discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict's settlement and Azerbaijan's cooperation with the OSCE.

After his visit to Azerbaijan, Burkhalter will leave for Yerevan.

Earlier in an interview with Trend, Burkhalter stressed that the OSCE Swiss Chairmanship fully supports the Minsk Group's efforts and is ready to render any support to the Minsk Group.

Switzerland pays particular attention to the initiatives and projects, which involve public diplomacy and aimed at restoring confidence between the parties.

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, 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 and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.

Besides, the UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

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