OSCE PA PRESIDENT TO VISIT SOUTH CAUCASUS

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.02.2010 19:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) high-level
delegation, led by President Joao Soares and the Special Representative
on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia, President Emeritus Goran Lennmarker,
will visit South Caucasus region next month.

The visit is scheduled for March 9-16, beginning in Georgia, (March
9- 10), to be continued to Armenia (March 10-13), before ending in
Azerbaijan (March 13-16).

This will be the first official visit of Joao Soares as OSCE PA
President. Negotiations will focus on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
situation after Georgian- Russian war.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988, as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994
(when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most
of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions is
now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are
holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.