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    INTERNATIONAL MEDIATORS URGE ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN TO STRIKE DEAL ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH

    AP Worldstream
    May 24, 2006

    International mediators Wednesday urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to
    reach a compromise over the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

    Envoys from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's
    so-called Minsk Group of mediators, which include France, Russia and
    the United States, held talks Wednesday with Azerbaijani President
    Ilham Aliev.

    A statement said that the mediators, due to hold talks with Armenian
    President Robert Kocharian on Thursday, had staged the diplomatic
    mission "because of the need to promote a peaceful settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict."

    The statement added that "now is the time for the sides to reach
    agreement on the basic principles of a settlement."

    Nagorno-Karabakh is inside Azerbaijan, but populated mostly by ethnic
    Armenians, who have run it since an uneasy 1994 cease-fire ended
    six years of full-scale war in which 30,000 people were killed and
    1 million made refugees.

    Sporadic border clashes continue to claim victims, while peace talks
    have stalled.

    Aliev and Kocharian in February failed to reach agreement after
    two days of talks in France on how to end the conflict. Since then,
    violence has risen sharply, and the two countries' presidents have
    traded increasingly bellicose statements.

    The lack of final resolution over the enclave's status has long tied
    up investment in the strategic, oil-rich Caucasus region.
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