OSCE Minsk group co-chairs working to organize Sargsyan-Aliyev -meeting
26.10.2015,
12:33
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are working to organize a meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev before the end of the year, the US co-chair of the Minsk Group, James Warlick, said in Yerevan on Monday.
YEREVAN, October 26. / ARKA /. The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are working to organize a meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev before the end of the year, the US co-chair of the Minsk Group, James Warlick, said in Yerevan on Monday. He said both presidents expressed readiness for a more intensive dialogue, but the timing of the meeting is not defined yet.
According to him, the meeting, most likely, will happen after the Armenian referendum on the constitutional reforms, scheduled for December 6, , but before the end of 2015.
Warlick added that the escalation of violence along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border shows that is the time to organize the highest level meeting.
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs who have arrived in Armenia are expected to meet with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and foreign minister Edward Nalbandian to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process. The co-chairs will visit also Azerbaijan on October 28.
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.
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. –0 –
According to him, the meeting, most likely, will happen after the Armenian referendum on the constitutional reforms, scheduled for December 6, , but before the end of 2015.
Warlick added that the escalation of violence along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border shows that is the time to organize the highest level meeting.
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs who have arrived in Armenia are expected to meet with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and foreign minister Edward Nalbandian to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process. The co-chairs will visit also Azerbaijan on October 28.
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.
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. –0 –
