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    ANKARA WELCOMES ASTRAKHAN DEAL ON KARABAKH TALKS

    Today's Zaman
    Nov 1 2010
    Turkey

    The Turkish capital has welcomed the results of a trilateral meeting
    hosted last week by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, at which
    the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on
    certain humanitarian issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute,
    a territorial dispute between Baku and Yerevan.

    "Turkey hopes that the Astrahan summit will make a positive
    contribution to the resolution process via accelerating efforts for
    the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; within this framework,
    it hopes that steps to be taken in humanitarian field will be supported
    and strengthened via similar measures to be improved in other fields,"
    the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement released
    on Sunday.

    The latest round of talks held between Armenian President Serzh
    Sarksyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in the Russian city of
    Astrahan through Medvedev's initiative resulted in a joint declaration
    in which the sides agreed on the need for confidence-building
    measures, including a prisoners of war and human remains swap "with
    the assistance of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
    Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group co-chairs and the International Committee
    of the Red Cross."

    At the end of the meeting, Medvedev said he hoped Baku and Yerevan
    could agree on the principles of a long-awaited peace deal for the
    breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh by early December.




    From: A. Papazian
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