Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 14
By Nigar Guliyeva Trend:
Poland and Sweden seek to promote conflict resolution and crisis management, especially in the Eastern Partnership region
This was stated in the joint article by Margot Wallstroem and Witold Waszczykowski, Swedens's and Poland's foreign affairs ministers, published by Euobserver.
"Next year, both Poland and Sweden will be represented at the UN Security Council as non-permanent members. We want to use this opportunity to promote conflict resolution and crisis management, especially in the EaP region," the FMs noted.
The EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009. It was jointly initiated by Poland and Sweden and brings together Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
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.