Armenian and Azeri presidents to meet November 19 over Karabakh conflict in Vienna
18.11.2013,
15:27
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will leave for Austria on Monday for a two-day working visit. On November 19 president Sargsyan will meet with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev to discuss the revival of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Sargsyan’s press office reports.
YEREVAN, November 18. / ARKA /. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will leave for Austria on Monday for a two-day working visit. On November 19 president Sargsyan will meet with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev to discuss the revival of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Sargsyan’s press office reports.
In Vienna, president Sargsyan will also meet with his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer.
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh broke out in 1988 after the predominantly Armenian-populated region voted in 1991, December 10, to secede from Azerbaijan and in the process proclaimed the enclave the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Full-scale fighting, initiated by Azerbaijan, erupted in the late winter of 1992. International mediation by several groups including Europe's OSCE’s failed to bring an end resolution that both sides could work with.
In the spring of 1993, Armenian forces captured regions outside the enclave itself. By the end of 1994, the Armenians were in full control of most of the enclave and also held and currently control seven regions beyond the administrative borders of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Almost one million people on both sides have been displaced as a result of the conflict. A Russian- -brokered ceasefire was signed in May 1994 and peace talks, mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group, have been held ever since by Armenia and Azerbaijan.-0-
