AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
Nov 6 2009
Garabagh negotiators hold talks with Azeri leaders
06-11-2009 04:46:48
OSCE mediators brokering settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan
conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh have started another visit to
the region from Baku. The visit aims to set the stage for the next
meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders.
The co-chairs – Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France,
and Robert Bradtke of the United States ` met with President Ilham
Aliyev on Thursday. The current state of peace talks and prospects for
settling the long-standing conflict were discussed, according to the
presidential press-service. The intermediaries also had talks with
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
The co-chairs will continue discussing Garabagh settlement in the
Armenian capital Yerevan on Friday.
The latest meeting between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkisian
was held in Chisinau, Moldova in October 8 and was described by the
mediators as constructive.
Armenia and Azerbaijan waged a war over the mountainous region of
Upper Garabagh in the early 1990s, which claimed some 30,000 lives and
displaced about a million Azerbaijanis. Armenia has been occupying
over 20% of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territory since
then. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but the OSCE-brokered
peace talks have been fruitless so far.*
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
