OSCE APPEALS END TO ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN DISPUTE
RTT News
July 10 2009
(RTTNews) – Friday, the United States, France and Russia appealed
to the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to resolve a long-running
dispute between the Caucasian countries over the Nagorno-Karabakh
region that killed thousands.
In a joint statement issued in Italy at the concluding day of the
G8 summit, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas
Sarkozy and their Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev affirmed their
"commitment to support the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan as they
finalize the basic principles for settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict."
The three countries co-chair a committee of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).