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  • BAKU; OSCE MG Co-chairs Should Cease NK Talks: Head Azerbaijani

    Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
    Jan 3 2008


    OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Should Cease Nagorno-Karabakh Talks: Head
    Azerbaijani Community
    03.01.08 14:19

    Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend E.Huseynli / Nizami Bahmanov, the head
    of the Azerbaijani community of Nagono-Karabakh, considers that the
    OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs should cease the peace talks. `If the
    co-chairs cannot achieve any result in the settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it is necessary to cease talks and declare
    for the OSCE chairman that the Armenian side is unwilling to change
    its non-constructive position,' Nizami Bahmanov, the head of the
    Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh said.


    To resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict the Minsk Group was
    established in 1992 with the participation of 10 countries. Since
    1997 three countries - the United States, Russia and France have been
    co-chairing at the OSCE Minsk Group. In this period the co-chairs
    have repeatedly came out with different proposals, whilst every time
    Armenia demonstrated non-constructive position.


    Bahmanov said that as soon as the OSCE Minsk Group cease talks, the
    Nagorno-Karabakh talks should be resolved on the level of UN. It is
    so naive to expect results from the next visit of the Minsk Group
    co-chairs to the region scheduled for mid-January. `Still the
    co-chairs are unable to distinguish the occupant country from the
    country exposed to occupation and carry out imbalanced policy in the
    resolution of the problem. So, it is impossible to speak about any
    results,' Bahmanov said.


    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
    1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since
    1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including
    the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In
    1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which
    time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk
    Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful
    negotiations.
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