Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 21
By Anakhanum Hidayatova – Trend:
France has changed its OSCE Minsk Group (MG) co-chair, the French embassy in Baku told Trend Oct. 21.
Stéphane Visconti has become the new co-chair, said the embassy adding that the date of his assuming the office is unknown yet.
Visconti succeeded Pierre Andrieu.
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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