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  • BAKU: "Armenian-Azerbaijani Negotiations Based On Long-Term Efforts

    "ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI NEGOTIATIONS BASED ON LONG-TERM EFFORTS OF BOTH SIDES" - ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

    Trend News Agency
    Aug 2 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Russia, Moscow, 2 August / Trend News corr. R.Agayev / The
    Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations to regulate the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict are based on the long-term efforts of both sides rather than
    on the proposals made by the mediators in Madrid, Edward Nalbandyan,
    Armenian Foreign Minister, said.

    "The matter does not concern the Madrid proposals. If the matter
    concerned Madrid proposals we would not meet today," Nalbandyan
    said in the briefing answering to the questions of Trend News and
    commenting the recent meeting with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
    Elmar Mammadyarov.

    The proposals made by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in Madrid
    in November 2007, lay on the negotiations table. The Armenian and
    Azerbaijani Presidents proposed both foreign ministers to continue
    discussions within the framework of the proposals. "These proposals
    are the results of long-term efforts through co-chairs' assistance. We
    have been working over these proposals," the Armenian Minister said.

    The Madrid proposals, according to Mammadyarov, mean a complex of
    issues gathered in Prague several years ago. As a result of the Prague
    process we came to a conclusion to solve the issues stage by stage.

    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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