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OSCE MG to try to hold Azerbaijani, Armenian presidents’ meeting as soon as possible

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 15 July 2016 18:03 (UTC +04:00)
The OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chairs will try to organize the next meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan as soon as possible, James Warlick, US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, told RIA Novosti July 15.
OSCE MG to try to hold Azerbaijani, Armenian presidents’ meeting as soon as possible

Baku, Azerbaijan, July 15

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The OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chairs will try to organize the next meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan as soon as possible, James Warlick, US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, told RIA Novosti July 15.

A trilateral meeting of President Aliyev, President Sargsyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin was held in St. Petersburg, June 20.

Following the meeting, the sides issued a joint statement. In the statement, the sides stressed the achievement of mutual understanding on a number of issues, resolving which will create the conditions for a progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement.

“Although the date of the next meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents has not been set, the US, Russia and France, as co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, will try to organize the presidents’ next meeting as soon as possible,” said Warlick.

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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