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Germany vows to continue active work towards Karabakh conflict's settlement

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 23 June 2016 20:54 (UTC +04:00)
OSCE chairperson-in-office and German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov and Pierre Andrieu, and with Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of the chairperson-in-office on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference in Berlin June 23.
Germany vows to continue active work towards Karabakh conflict's settlement

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 23

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OSCE chairperson-in-office and German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov and Pierre Andrieu, and with Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of the chairperson-in-office on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference in Berlin June 23.

The co-chairs informed the chairperson-in-office about the results of the summit of the presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia, held in St. Petersburg June 20, and the agreement reached there about increasing the number of staff of the Office of the Personal Representative in order to bring additional international observers into the conflict zone, said a message posted on the OSCE website.

“The aim of the agreed increase is to stabilize the situation in the conflict zone and to create an atmosphere conducive to fostering the peace process,” said the message.

Steinmeier welcomed the recent improvements in the upholding of the ceasefire. There was agreement among the participants of the Berlin meeting that a sustainable ceasefire and a return to political negotiations remain indispensable.

“Today’s talks also served the goal of coordinating possible further steps towards achieving a settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also with a view to Steinmeier’s upcoming visit to the region,” said the message.

In the framework of the German OSCE Chairmanship, Germany is supporting the negotiation efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group and its co-chairs and will continue to work actively towards a settlement of the conflict, according to the message.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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