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OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs to Meet in Vienna 6 Nov

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 5 November 2008 18:46 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, 5 November / Trend corr. N.Abdullayeva/ The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will meet in Vienna on 6 November.

After the meeting, the co-chairs will hold a joint news conference, OSCE said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenia's Serzh Sargsyan and Russia's Dmitriy Medvedev signed a declaration at the end of their meeting in Mein Dorf castle near Moscow on 2 November.

Presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan decided to make joint efforts to normalize the situation in Caucasus and requested Foreign Ministers to make efforts to solve the [Armenian-Azerbaijani] Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December 1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The countries keep on peace negotiating. OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by USA, Russia, France is engaged in peace settling of the conflict.

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