Agence France Presse — English
March 30, 2005 Wednesday
Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders to meet over tensions in
Nagorno-Karabakh
YEREVAN
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will discuss the rising
tensions in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh at a meeting in
Warsaw on May 16, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said
Wednesday.
Armenian President Robert Kotcharian and his Azeri counterpart Ilham
Aliev will meet on the sidelines of a Council of Europe meeting.
Long-simmering tensions over the disputed enclave of Karabakh in the
volatile Caucasus have flared recently, sparking fears that the
escalation of hostilities along a ceasefire line between Armenian and
Azeri forces could lead to a new war.
Armenia has controlled Karabakh and seven surrounding regions which
make up 14 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized
territory since the two former Soviet republics ended large-scale
hostilities with a ceasefire in 1994.
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