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    AZERBAIJAN QUESTIONS US ROLE IN KARABAKH PEACE TALKS

    Voice of America
    April 15 2010

    Azerbaijan is publicly questioning the neutrality of U.S. mediators
    engaged in negotiations to end the bitter and once violent standoff
    over a breakaway Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan.

    Ali Hasanov, a top political advisor to President Ilham Aliyev, says
    the Baku government is not happy with U.S. efforts to broker a peace
    agreement ending the long-standing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Hassan spoke Wednesday in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku. He said U.S.
    negotiators are seen in his country as influenced by what he called
    the Armenian lobby.

    U.S. officials have not commented on the accusation.

    Backed by the Yerevan government, ethnic Armenians seized control
    of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. The conflict
    has claimed 35,000 lives and left more than 1 million others homeless.

    The United States, France and Russia comprise the so-called Minsk
    Group, which is trying to negotiate a peace settlement.

    Although major fighting subsided after a 1994 cease-fire, Armenia and
    Azerbaijan continue to accuse each other of violating the pact. There
    are regular reports of sniper fire in and near the enclave.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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