Azerbaijan, Baku, 10 June / Trend corr S. Agayeva/ New shades occurred in settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. "Now we work over those provisions of the Madrid proposals on settlement of the conflict which have not yet been coordinated," Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said to journalists in Baku on 10 May.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful negotiations.
"Those uncoordinated points are principal for us and we provided opportunity to OSCE Minsk Group intermediaries to work with Armenian side on their own," Minister said.
As to the last meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents which took place in St Petersburg on 6 June, Mammadyarov said that the meeting was of evaluation character. "We presented our positions to each other and decided to give time to Minsk Group co-chairs to find new ways to put forward sides' positions," Minister said.
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