AZERBAIJAN SAYS UN SHOULD SOLVE KARABAKH CONFLICT
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL
EurasiaNet, NY
Oct 4 2007
Azerbaijan says the United Nations Security Council is the only place
to find a solution to the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
with Armenia.
Speaking to the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
said international law and four relevant Security Council resolutions
should form the legal basis of a resolution of the conflict.
Mammadyarov rejected the statement from his Armenian counterpart,
Vartan Oskanian, who told the General Assembly that a Karabakh solution
should be negotiated only through the OSCE, the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an enclave inside Azerbaijan with a mostly ethnic
Armenian population. Armenian forces seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh
from Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s that claimed an estimated
30,000 lives.
A cease-fire was signed in 1994, but the two countries have failed
to negotiate a settlement on the region’s status.
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