WHAT DID ALIYEV AND SARGSYAN DISCUSS IN MUNICH?
news.az
Nov 23 2009
Azerbaijan
Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev Reports say a renewed version of
the Madrid principles for a Karabakh settlement was discussed at the
presidents’ meeting in Munich on Sunday.
A joint declaration of the presidents of the countries co-chairing
the OSCE Minsk Group was adopted at the G8 summit in L’Aquila in
Italy on 10 July 2009. They consider that the reconciliation between
Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders should be reached on the basis of
principles fixed in the 2007 Madrid agreement. The main principles
of the Karabakh conflict settlement, including the return of regions
around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan and granting a temporary status
which envisions guarantees of security and autonomy to the region,
were made public.
The document also stipulates the creation of a corridor between
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the further definition of the final
legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh through a referendum, the right
of all refugees and IDPs to return home and international security
guarantees including a peacekeeping operation.