AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ENDS HIS WORKING VISIT TO MOSCOW
Trend News Agency
Nov 2 2008
Azerbaijan
On November 2, Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev ended his working
visit to Moscow.
At the Vnukovo airport, the Azerbaijani leader was seen off by senior
Russian government officials.
The same evening, President Ilham Aliyev returned to Baku.
At the Heydar Aliyev International Airport, the president of Azerbaijan
was welcomed by Prime Minister Artur Rasizade, Head of the President`s
Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev and Baku Mayor Hajibala Abutalybov.
A declaration was signed as a result of a meeting of Presidents of
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia – Ilham Aliyev, Serge Sargsyan and
Dmitry Medvedev, in the Main Dorf palace in Moscow on 2 November.
The leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to work together
on healing the current situation in the Caucasus, as well as instructed
foreign ministers to continue work on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
RIA Novosti reported. Presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
declared that they would contribute to health the situation in South
Caucasus and establish regional stability and security through a
political solution to the conflict after they substantively and
substantially discussed the state and prospects of settling of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by political means through the continuation
of direct dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia and mediation of
Russia, the United States and France as co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group, the declaration said . The declaration envisages settlement of
the conflict on the basis of the principles and norms of international
law and adopted in the framework of decisions and documents, which will
create favorable conditions for economic development and comprehensive
cooperation in the region. Declaration was read out by Dmitry Medvedev
after negotiations.
Armenia has occupied 20% of Azerbaijan’s lands including
Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding seven regions. The occupation began
in 1988. Azerbaijan lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and
Khojali, in December 1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied
Shusha, Khojali and Nagorno-KarabakhÑ-s seven surrounding regions. 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,
but fruitless negotiations
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