Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers meet in Slovakia
05.12.2019,
10:03
Foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov, had another meeting on December 4 in Bratislava, Slovakia, on the fringes of an OSCE Ministerial Conference.
YEREVAN, December 5. /ARКА/. Foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov, had another meeting on December 4 in Bratislava, Slovakia, on the fringes of an OSCE Ministerial Conference.
The press secretary of Armenia’s Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan said in a Facebook post that the meeting was held within the framework of the 26th OSCE Ministerial Conference with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Stefan Visconti (France), Andrew Shoffer (USA), as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mnatsakanyan met with the co-chairs and Kasprzyk to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year.
On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. -0---
The press secretary of Armenia’s Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan said in a Facebook post that the meeting was held within the framework of the 26th OSCE Ministerial Conference with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Stefan Visconti (France), Andrew Shoffer (USA), as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mnatsakanyan met with the co-chairs and Kasprzyk to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year.
On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. -0---
