Baku, Azerbaijan, July 15
By Seba Aghayeva - Trend:
OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chairs will visit Ankara July 18 and will inform the Turkish side about the negotiations on the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Baku July 15.
Cavusoglu made the remarks during a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov.
“Turkey, as a member of the OSCE Minsk Group, will continue to make efforts for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” he added.
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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