Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
July 18 2009
Meeting of Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian presidents launched
18.07.09 17:13
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev and the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan discuss further ways
of settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem at the meeting in Moscow on
July 18, RIA Novosti said.
Leaders attended the races for the Russian President’s prize at the
central Moscow race track in the morning. Later they continued
trilateral talks on one of Moscow restaurants.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December
1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7
districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed
a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia,
France, and the U.S. – are currently holding the peace negotiations.