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MINSK GROUP URGES BOLD KARABAKH STEPS
Journal of Turkish Weekly
june 20 2012
The United States, France and Russia said June 18 they were united
in a commitment to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and urged
Armenia and Azerbaijan to take decisive steps to resolve it.
"We regret that the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia did not
take the decisive steps that our countries called for in the joint
statement" issued at the G8 summit in Deauville last year, the three
states said in a statement.
"Nevertheless, the progress that has been achieved should provide the
momentum to complete work on the framework for a comprehensive peace."
Armenia and Azerbaijan remain locked in a stand-off over the enclave,
which Armenian forces seized during a war in the early 1990s that
killed nearly 30,000 people and forced another million to flee
their homes.
The statement issued at the G20 summit in Mexico by the three nations,
acting as mediators as the "Minsk Group," came as the Armenian
and Azerbaijani foreign ministers met in Paris at the latest in a
long-running series of peace talks.
"Military force will not resolve the conflict and would only prolong
the suffering and hardships endured by the peoples of the region,"
said presidents Francois Hollande of France, Barack Obama of the
United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
"Only a peaceful, negotiated settlement can allow the entire region
to move beyond the status quo toward a secure and prosperous future,"
the statement said.
While visiting the volatile Caucasus region earlier this month, US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the recent intensive
clashes could have "unpredictable and disastrous consequences."
As diplomacy gains pace, Azerbaijani forces killed an Armenian soldier
on June 18 in the latest gun battle along the frontline in the disputed
region of Nagorno Karabakh, the Karabakh administration said.
Nineteen-year-old conscript Aram Gyulnazarian died after being hit
by Azerbaijani gunfire, the administration said in a statement. The
soldier was the 10th reported killed this month in clashes along the
Karabakh frontline and on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
the worst outbreak of violence between the ex-Soviet enemies for
several years.
Journal of Turkish Weekly
june 20 2012
The United States, France and Russia said June 18 they were united
in a commitment to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and urged
Armenia and Azerbaijan to take decisive steps to resolve it.
"We regret that the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia did not
take the decisive steps that our countries called for in the joint
statement" issued at the G8 summit in Deauville last year, the three
states said in a statement.
"Nevertheless, the progress that has been achieved should provide the
momentum to complete work on the framework for a comprehensive peace."
Armenia and Azerbaijan remain locked in a stand-off over the enclave,
which Armenian forces seized during a war in the early 1990s that
killed nearly 30,000 people and forced another million to flee
their homes.
The statement issued at the G20 summit in Mexico by the three nations,
acting as mediators as the "Minsk Group," came as the Armenian
and Azerbaijani foreign ministers met in Paris at the latest in a
long-running series of peace talks.
"Military force will not resolve the conflict and would only prolong
the suffering and hardships endured by the peoples of the region,"
said presidents Francois Hollande of France, Barack Obama of the
United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
"Only a peaceful, negotiated settlement can allow the entire region
to move beyond the status quo toward a secure and prosperous future,"
the statement said.
While visiting the volatile Caucasus region earlier this month, US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the recent intensive
clashes could have "unpredictable and disastrous consequences."
As diplomacy gains pace, Azerbaijani forces killed an Armenian soldier
on June 18 in the latest gun battle along the frontline in the disputed
region of Nagorno Karabakh, the Karabakh administration said.
Nineteen-year-old conscript Aram Gyulnazarian died after being hit
by Azerbaijani gunfire, the administration said in a statement. The
soldier was the 10th reported killed this month in clashes along the
Karabakh frontline and on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
the worst outbreak of violence between the ex-Soviet enemies for
several years.