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  • BAKU: Minsk Group agrees on resuming Azerbaijani-Armenian contacts

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    May 1 2014

    Minsk Group agrees on resuming Azerbaijani-Armenian contacts

    1 May 2014, 10:50 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    The OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
    reached an agreement in principle to resume high level contacts
    between Azerbaijan-Armenia.

    The news was announced in a report by the Russian Foreign Ministry,
    which was about the results of the Ministry's activities and main
    directions in 2013, as well as medium-term goals.

    "We worked closely with the other co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk
    Group (France and the U.S.) as part of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
    process. Thanks to our joint efforts, an agreement in principle was
    reached to resume the Armenian-Azerbaijani contacts at the highest
    level," the report said.

    The ministry also said the Russian Federation will continue its active
    role in the political and diplomatic settlement of the conflicts in
    the CIS, particularly contributing to the settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in cooperation with the other OSCE Minsk
    Group co-chairs.

    "The priority direction of the ministry's work in the Transcaucasia
    will be promoting security and stability in the region," the report
    said.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
    territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the
    early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, the Armenian
    armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's
    internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and
    seven adjacent regions.

    The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have
    not been enforced to this day.

    Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France, and the U.S. through the OSCE
    Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by
    the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles.
    Negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.

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