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    ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN TALKS DO NOT RESOLVE ENCLAVE DISPUTE: REPORT

    Agence France Presse
    August 1, 2008 Friday 4:33 PM GMT

    Foreign ministers from Azerbaijan and Armenia said they held
    constructive talks Friday in Moscow, but failed to reach an agreement
    over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Interfax reported.

    "The meeting was useful, we agreed to continue negotiations, but we
    are still far from making a breakthrough," said Azerbaijani minister
    Elmar Mamediarov, as cited by Interfax.

    His Armenian counterpart Edvard Nalbandian said they discussed
    proposals to resolve the dispute made by the Minsk group of the
    Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which
    includes the United States, Russia and France.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan remain locked in a tense stand-off over the
    enclave, which ethnic Armenian forces seized during a war in the early
    1990s that killed nearly 30,000 people and forced another million on
    both sides to flee their homes.

    A ceasefire was signed between the two former Soviet republics in
    1994 but the dispute remains unresolved after more than a decade of
    negotiations, and shootings are common. Up to 16 soldiers were killed
    in a clash in June.

    Nagorno-Karabakh is a 4,400-square-kilometre (1,700-square-mile)
    enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan.
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