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OSCE Chairman to Talk Karabakh Settlement in Baku |
14 June 2012The chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, will touch upon the settlement of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict during his visit to Azerbaijan, the OSCE office in Baku told RIA Novosti.
Nagorny Karabakh is a breakaway region on Azerbaijani territory with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population.
An Azerbaijani diplomat said Gilmore will meet with President Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister Artur Rasizade, Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov and other officials and public.
Prior to his visit to Azerbaijan’s capital, Gilmore told Baku-based ARA news agency that the OSCE may not impose its solution to the conflict.
Gilmore, who earlier visited Armenia, also said only dialogue and free expression of will by parties to the conflict may help solve the conflict, adding that violence should stop.
The conflict between the two Caucasus states erupted in the late 1980s, when Nagorny Karabakh claimed independence from Azerbaijan. It is estimated to have left more than 30,000 people dead on both sides between 1988 and 1994. The region has since remained under Armenian control. |
14 June 2012
Ria Novosti
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