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  • ANKARA: U.S. hopes Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be resolved in 2009

    Hürriyet, Turkey
    Nov 15 2008


    U.S. hopes Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be resolved in 2009


    The U.S. said the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and
    Armenia can be solved in 2009 as all parties aware it should be
    settled.

    "I think they (the prospects) have improved as all parties are aware
    that the conflict should be settled and that this conflict requires
    attention," Matt Bryza, deputy assistant secretary of state for
    European and Eurasian Affairs, told Today.Az in an interview.

    Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20 percent of
    Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven
    surrounding districts, displacing 10 percent of the Azeri population
    in the series of bloody clashes both between and within the two
    neighboring countries.

    "Yeah, I even hope that it will happen next year," Bryza said when
    asked about the prospects of the settlement of the long-standing
    conflict.

    Bryza, who is the co-chair of OSCE's Minsk Group established to
    mediate between the parties, would travel Yerevan to hold talks with
    the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

    He told Today.Az that the Sargsyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart
    could meet again early 2009.
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