US co-chair of OSCE Minsk group on Nagorno-Karabakh James Warlick to step down
21.11.2016,
17:29
The US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, James Warlick, has tweeted that he will step down as Minsk Group co-chair on December 31.
YEREVAN, November 21. / ARKA /. The US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, James Warlick, has tweeted that he will step down as Minsk Group co-chair on December 31.
“It has been an honor to serve in the US Department of State for more than 30 years,” Warlick tweeted November 21.
“I will be a partner in Russia's largest and most prestigious law firm,” Warlick said in another tweet including a link to the website of the Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners.
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---
“It has been an honor to serve in the US Department of State for more than 30 years,” Warlick tweeted November 21.
“I will be a partner in Russia's largest and most prestigious law firm,” Warlick said in another tweet including a link to the website of the Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners.
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---
