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    Kazakhstan use every opportunity to achieve breakthrough in Karabakh conflict
    06.02.2010 15:23 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The last meeting between the Presidents of Armenia,
    Russia and Azerbaijan in Sochi, has given new breath to the Karabakh
    conflict negotiations," Kanat Saudabayev OSCE Chairman, Secretary of
    State and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan said.

    "As a regional country we have more opportunities to get closer to the
    final stage of the Karabakh process. We expect that the conflict
    solution will be found before we pass the OSCE chairmanship next
    country," Saudabayev said. Last year, the Presidents of Azerbaijan and
    Armenia met six times - in Munich, Chisinau, Moscow, St. Petersburg,
    Prague and Zurich. Meetings in Moscow and St. Petersburg were also in
    the trilateral format.

    "We will do our utmost to resolve the Karabakh conflict. OSCE Minsk
    Group has now reached the big breakthrough," Kanat Saudabayev said,
    Trend News reported.

    The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in 1988
    as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the final
    years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 to
    1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh
    and Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions of
    Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control of
    NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks
    mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.

    The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the
    world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its
    mandate includes issues such as arms control, human rights, freedom of
    the press and fair elections. Most of its 3,500-plus staff are engaged
    in field operations, with only around 10% in its headquarters.

    The OSCE is an ad hoc organization under the United Nations Charter
    (Chap. VIII), and is concerned with early warning, conflict
    prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. Its 56
    participating states are in Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and
    North America and cover most of the northern hemisphere. It was
    created during the Cold War era as an East-West forum.
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