ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN AND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS TO HAVE TRILATERAL MEETING IN SOCHI ON JANUARY 25

Arminfo
2010-01-21 13:20:00

ArmInfo. Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani presidents, Serzh Sargsyan,
Dmitry Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev, met in Sochi on January 25 in
the trilateral format. The presidential press- service of Armenia
reported on Thursday confirming ArmInfo’s report made on Wednesday
with a reference to the Kremlin sources.

The presidents are expected to discuss new proposals of the OSCE Minsk
Group on Madrid principles adopted at the OSCE Summit in Madrid in
November 2007 and containing proposals of the mediators on settlement
of the Karabakh conflict. OSCE MG co-chairs visited Armenia to make
preparations for the trilateral meeting.

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijan Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians.

In 1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsion of ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in mediation
of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a Protocol on
Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far.