Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1989 (Photolur) PRAGUE, June 30, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Lifting the veil of confidentiality that has marked the Karabakh peace process since it began in 1992, the French, Russian and U.S. co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group tasked with mediating a solution to the conflict have over the past eight days gone public with a summary of the basic principles currently under discussion.
In an interview with RFE/RL, the U.S. official tasked with mediating peace talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave indicated he and fellow diplomats had done as much as they could to foster a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian (left) with his Azerbaijani counterpart, İlham Aliyev (file photo) (Photolur) June 29, 2006 -- Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations have called for a prompt resolution to regional conflicts in former Soviet republics and in the Balkans.
In an earlier interview with RFE/RL, Matthew Bryza, the new U.S. co-chair of the group moderating negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, spoke about the prospects of a resolution to the conflict. Some of Bryza's comments caused a commotion in Yervan and Baku.
U.S. official Matthew Bryza was recently named U.S. co-chair of the Minsk Group tasked with moderating talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Bryza spoke with RFE/RL about the prospects of resolving the conflict.
BAKU, June 23, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has described the efforts of international mediators to resolve Azerbaijan's dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as "hopeless."
Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia (ITAR-TASS) June 22, 2006 -- Russia's Foreign Ministry said today the decision on the final status of Kosovo could serve as a precedent for the settlement of a range of "frozen conflicts" in former Soviet republics, in particular the breakaway Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
June 22, 2006 -- Leaders of several former Soviet republics are gathering in Minsk for meetings of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community, to be held on June 23.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (file photo) (AFP) June 21, 2006 -- The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of ethnic Armenian forces from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani President Aliyev (file photo) (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, June 16, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today called for Islamic countries to join efforts to fight the rising resentment against Muslims in the world and the perceived connection between Islam and terrorism.
Matthew Bryza on a recent vist to Abkhazia (InterPressNews) BRUSSELS, June 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said today that Matthew Bryza, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, will co-chair the OSCE Minsk Group that mediates between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported.
Peter Semneby (file photo) (Photolur) BRUSSELS, June 14, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The EU special representative for the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, told RFE/RL today that European Neighborhood Policy Action Plans with Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan will be signed "in a couple of months' time."
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