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    EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SAYS NAGORNO-KARABAKH NEGOTIATIONS MUST BASE ON BASIC PRINCIPLES

    Trend News Agency
    July 31 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 31 July /Trend News corr. R.Novruzov/ EU Special
    Representative say it would be expedient to continue the negotiations
    on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of basic principles. EU
    Special Representative for South Caucasus Peter Semneby discussed in
    Baku on 31 July with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
    the ways to settle Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    "We discussed the upcoming meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
    Foreign Ministers to take place in Moscow on 1 August and agreed
    that the negotiations must base on basic principles," Semneby said
    to journalists after the meeting.

    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.

    The work over settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, suggested
    by both countries' presidents in St. Petersburg in June, will be
    the basis for negotiations between Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign
    ministers in Moscow at the beginning of August.

    Negotiations on peace settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will
    be based on Madrid proposals, French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
    Bernard Fassier said to Trend News previously.

    In November, 2007, OSCE Minsk Group's co-chairs presented in Madrid
    the basic principles of peace settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    to Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents. Co-chairs believe the Madrid
    proposals are just and balanced.
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