Will Karabakh Participate in The Negotiation?

Armenia and Azerbaijan have two weeks to forward their proposals regarding the uncoordinated parts of the agreement on Nagorno Karabakh.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters following the trilateral meeting between the Presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in the Krasnaya Polyana resort near Sochi that the parties had reached an agreement on the preamble of the document.

“The talks were productive: concrete suggestions were considered and presented to the Co-Chairs. There is a common understanding on the preamble to the agreement on the Karabakh conflict.”

Later the Russian Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Yuri Merzlyakov, later noted the concrete timeframe, when the parties have to prepare their tangible ideas of how to formulate the text where there is no agreement.  Read more... (285 words)

NKR Foreign Ministry: Freedom of Speech Does Not Imply Freedom to Disseminate False News

In their attempts to depict Karabakh in the negative light, the Azerbaijani mass media have once again lost their way in broad daylight. Within a day, the woman killed on NKR-Azerbaijan contact line turned from Armenian to Azeri, whereas the dead body circulated in news materials belongs to a Georgian woman killed in South Ossetia back in 2008, NKR Foreign Ministry says in a release.

It’s a long time Azerbaijani media have been using illicit practices in their anti-Armenian propaganda. This is their third falsification attempt over the past 3 months, says the release with reference to «Noviy Region» (New Region) Russian periodical.
In a recent publication, the periodical also unmasked Trend news agency, which had shot a documentary about the Karabakh conflict, attaching the photo of a deceased Kosovo citizen (taken from a Canadian francophone website) who was represented as «victim of Armenian aggression.»  Read more... (297 words)

Georgia’s Saakashvili: Kremlin holds key to Karabakh solution

Georgio an President Mikhail Saakashvili believes Russia will have a decisive say in a solution of the long-running conflict between his country’s two South Caucasus neighbors.

“The position of Russia is the main key to the resolution of the Karabakh conflict,” Saakashvili said in an interview with Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio station Wednesday ( in Russian, http://echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/643488-echo).

“During all these years I have heard very optimistic statements by European diplomats that a breakthrough [in this conflict] was near in sight. But those always seemed to me to be wishful thinking. The problem is a difficult one and the main key to it is Russia,” the Georgian leader said. “There is only one recipe to solving all problems – direct negotiations of these countries conducted with the consideration of international law, including the right of people to return to the places of their former residence and respect for state sovereignty.”  Read more... (267 words)

OSCE Monitoring Interrupted Because of Azeri Fire

The recurrent OSCE monitoring of the contact line between the Armed Forces of NKR and Azerbaijan was interrupted today because of the fire opened from the Azerbaijani side in the direction of the members of the monitoring group.

The accident took place because the Azerbaijani side failed to lead the monitoring group to its front positions, thus violating the agreement reached earlier.

The shots were registered by members of the monitoring group, Coordinator of the OSC Office, Lieutenant Colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary), as well as the Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Irji Aberle (the Czech Republic) and Vladimir Chuntulov (Bulgaria). They decided to interrupt the monitoring for security reasons.

Source: ArmRadio – Original Article

To Influence Baku Armenia Should Withdraw From Kars Agreement and Raise Nakhichevan Issue

Turkey and Azerbaijan are trying to link Armenia-Turkey relations to NKR conflict, RPA parliamentary group member Gagik Melikyan said.

“It’s natural, but they won’t be allowed to do so,” he stressed at the joint news conference with former NKR Foreign Minister Arman Melikyan.

Yet, the latter disagreed, noting that though there’s no formal link between Armenia-Turkey protocols and NKR conflict settlement, still there is a procedural one.

“Armenia-Turkey border is unlikely to be opened until the spring 2010. All the while, Turkey will be convincing the international community of the impossibility to open the border without some progress in Karabakh conflict settlement,” Arman Melikyan emphasized.  Read more... (148 words)

Turkey Says Nagorno Karabakh Issue is a Key To deal With Armenia

BAKU, December 2 (RIA Novosti) – Turkish-Armenian deals can only be ratified after the Nagorny Karabakh issue is resolved, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Athens Tuesday.

“Davutoglu… noted that ratification of Armenian-Turkish protocols… is only possible after Armenia leaves the occupied Azerbaijani territories,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

In October, Turkey and Armenia signed historic accords on diplomatic relations and on development of bilateral ties. The documents have yet to be ratified by the country’s parliaments, and face opposition from nationalist parties in both countries.

Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support for Azerbaijan, a predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ally of Ankara, following a bloody conflict over Nagorny Karabakh between the two republics.  Read more... (259 words)

Azerbaijan-Armenia Territory Talks: Force May Be Used if No Results

Azerbaijan’s President has warned neighboring Armenia that his country is ready to resort to military force to resolve their territorial dispute if talks over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh fail.

The two countries’ leaders, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, are meeting on Sunday in Munich.

“If no results are achieved at this meeting, the hopes we pin on the talks will be exhausted, and no other way will remain for us. We must be prepared for this,” Aliyev said while visiting Azerbaijan’s Geranboi district on Friday, Interfax news agency reports.
He noted that the recent talks did not produce any results because the Armenian side demonstrated an unconstructive position, and said the current meeting in Munich is likely to be conclusive.  Read more... (206 words)