PRESIDENT: PACE HOPES FOR CONCRETE RESULTS OF BAKU-YEREVAN DIALOGUE
by A.Maraton
Trend News Agency
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
June 29, 2011 Wednesday
Baku, Azerbaijan
June 29–ASTANA, Kazakhstan — The Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) supports dialogue between Azerbaijan and
Armenia and hopes that this dialogue will be accompanied by concrete
results in the future, PACE President Movlud Cavusoglu told Trend.
The PACE has disappointed over that the presidents of Azerbaijan and
Armenia have failed to reach agreement in Kazan, he said.
“PACE, of course, supports dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia and
we support the continuation of the two countries’ presidents’ meetings
under the chairmanship of the Russian President,” Cavusoglu said.
The summit of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia ended
Friday in Kazan without reaching an agreement on the basic principles
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, but the sides mentioned
the progress towards this goal, the joint statement said.
“The Heads of State highlighted the achievement of mutual understanding
on a number of issues, the solution of which contributes to creating
conditions to approve the basic principles,” the statement said.
The document says that the meeting participants reviewed the activities
conducted to agree upon the project of basic principles.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group — Russia, France, and the U.S. —
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.