BAKU: OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs To Meet In Vienna 6 Nov

OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS TO MEET IN VIENNA 6 NOV

Trend News Agency
Nov 5 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 5 November /Trend News 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.