ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN TO RESUME TALKS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH THIS MONTH
Associated Press Worldstream
January 9, 2007 Tuesday
Armenia and Azerbaijan are to resume long-running talks on the disputed
territory of Nagorno-Karabakh later this month, the Armenian foreign
minister said Tuesday.
Vardan Oksanian said he would hold his next meeting with his
Azerbaijani counterpart on Jan. 23 in Moscow.
The foreign minister said Armenia continued to insist on the
right to self-determination for the ethnic Armenian majority in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
The two countries are at loggerheads over the mountainous region
in Azerbaijan that has been under the control of Armenian and
ethnic-Armenian forces since a 1994 cease-fire.
The six-year separatist conflict killed about 30,000 people and drove
about 1 million from their homes, including many of the region’s
ethnic Azeris. The region’s final status remains unresolved and years
of talks under the auspices of international mediators have brought
few visible results.