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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be in focus of OSCE head’s Baku visit

2 May 2014 14:18 (UTC+04:00)
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be in focus of OSCE head’s Baku visit

By Jamila Babayeva

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be the main topic of the negotiations during OSCE chairman, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter's visit to Azerbaijan.

Swiss ambassador to Azerbaijan Pascal Obisher spoke about this while talking to Trend Agency on May 2.

Burkhalter will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan on June 3.

"During his visit Burkhalter will meet with the leadership of Azerbaijan, prime minister, foreign minister and other officials of the country," Obisher added.

He said the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the prospects of developing the bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Switzerland, the events in the region and Ukraine will be discussed during the visit.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s.

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

Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the US and the OSCE Minsk Group are underway on the basis of a peaceful outline -called Madrid Principle -proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.

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