DATE OF AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT’S MEETING DETERMINED

Trend News Agency
Oct 29 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 29 October / corr Trend News A.Gasimova /
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will hold a meeting on the
solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Moscow on 2 November
with the participation of Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, the
Kremlin said on 29 October.

"In accordance with the agreement achieved among the sides, a meeting
between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev
and Serzh Sarkisyan, with the participation of Russian President
Dmitriy Medvedev, on the solution of the [Armenian-Azerbaijani]
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be held in Moscow on 2 November 2008,
Interfax reports..

The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began
in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since
1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including
the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In
1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which
time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful
negotiations.