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    Trend, Azerbaijan
    July 1 2011


    President: Ukraine to assist in resolving Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    [01.07.2011 18:43]
    Azerbaijan, Baku, July 1 / Trend /

    Ukraine will spare no effort to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
    in 2013 when Ukraine will chair the OSCE, Ukrainian President Viktor
    Yanukovych said at a news conference with his Armenian counterpart,
    RBC-Ukraine reported.


    "We are not members of the OSCE Minsk Group, but we have good
    partnership, friendly relations, trade and economic relations with
    Azerbaijan and Armenia," he said. "It is in our interest and in the
    interests of the Ukrainian people for this conflict to be resolved
    peacefully."

    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said that there could be a
    breakthrough in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the Kazan
    meeting but it did not take place.


    "I think that at least, one chance was missed," the Armenian President
    said. "This does not mean the end of the negotiation process. It does
    not mean that we will not continue our negotiations. This means that
    we have lost this period of time, at least until a new meeting."

    Sargsyan also informed that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said
    over phone on June 30 that he had sent his vision of the situation in
    a written form.


    The Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Dmitry Medvedev of Russia,
    and Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia discussed the basic principles of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement on Friday in Kazan on June 24.

    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.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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