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  • BAKU: Expert: Current Year May Be Crucial For Nagorno-Karabakh Proce

    EXPERT: CURRENT YEAR MAY BE CRUCIAL FOR NAGORNO-KARABAKH PROCESS

    Trend News Agency
    Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
    June 1, 2011 Wednesday
    Baku, Azerbaijan

    June 01--JUNE 1 / , Azerbaijan, Baku -- The current year may be crucial
    for the Nagorno-Karabakh process, the expert at the Carnegie Endowment
    for International Peace, English journalist and author of the book
    "Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War" Thomas
    de Waal said.

    "I believe the announcement by the three presidents in Deauville was
    the most significant declaration on the Karabakh conflict for many
    years", he told Trend.

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
    and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will meet in Kazan in late June.

    This will be the ninth tripartite meeting between the presidents of
    Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia.

    The meeting held in Sochi on March 5 was the eighth tripartite meeting
    of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia.

    Astrakhan hosted a trilateral meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan,
    Armenia and Russia -- Ilham Aliyev, Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan
    on Oct. 27. The parties signed a declaration envisaging the return
    of POWs. It is of humanitarian nature.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group -- Russia, France, and the U.S. --
    are currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

    The Basic Principles document has now been under discussion for more
    than five years and, as the presidents say, continued delay over
    agreeing on a short framework agreement raises questions as to whether
    the presidents are genuinely committed to a peaceful deal for Karabakh,
    he said.

    Russia, France and the United States obviously believe that the time
    has come to move forward, the expert said. Russian President Dmitry
    Medvedev, U.S President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas
    Sarkozy called on the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to demonstrate
    the political will and to finalize the basic principles [the settlement
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh] during the upcoming Armenian-Azerbaijani
    summit in June.

    This year could be crucial while there is agreement among the three
    big nations and before an election cycle begins," he said.

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