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    International Herald Tribune, France
    Dec 1 2006

    Official: Armenia and Azerbaijan discussing terms of Nagorno-Karabakh
    referendum

    The Associated Press
    Published: December 1, 2006

    YEREVAN, Armenia: Armenia and Azerbaijan are discussing terms of
    holding a referendum on the status of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh
    region, Armenia's foreign minister said Friday.

    Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region in Azerbaijan, has been under
    control of Armenian and ethnic Armenian Karabakh forces since the
    1994 end of a separatist war.

    Years of negotiation have produced little visible sign of progress in
    resolving the dispute, which prompted Azerbaijan to close its borders
    with Armenia. But the presidents of both countries said this week
    that significant progress has been made.

    Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oksanian said that the question of
    whether the region could be autonomous within Azerbaijan was a key
    issue in negotiations.

    "A resolution to this problem can be found only by a referendum, a
    proposal for which is contained in the document that the sides are
    discussing."

    He said the referendum was proposed to take place "on the territory
    of Nagorno-Karabakh, with people who live there and lived there
    taking part."

    Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Azeri population fled the conflict more
    than a decade ago and large numbers of them have lived as internally
    displaced people since then.
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