Nagorno-Karabakh Talks Moving in Right Direction

Jun 17, 2005 Washington
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan plan to meet Friday in Paris to discuss ways to settle the conflict over the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.
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Sabine Freizer, the Caucasus project director for the International Crisis Group, spoke to VOA from a noisy street corner in the Azeri city of Ganja. She says the Armenians and Azeris define the conflict differently."The Azeris consider that the origins of the conflict are territorial claims that Armenia has on Azerbaijan territory," said Sabine Freizer. "While the Armenians consider that the conflict is about national self-determination and the right of Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh to express their will for sovereignty."
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So far, the Minsk Group has been unsuccessful in proposing a single solution agreeable to both Armenia and Azerbaijan. [...].
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Last month the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan met on the sidelines of the Council of Europe summit in Warsaw. [...]
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Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian says he hopes to build on the progress made in Warsaw."During the two presidents meeting in Warsaw, certain progress was made on one of the most critical items," said Vartan Oskanian. [...].

Absent at the negotiating table Friday will be a direct representative of the Nagorno-Karabakh people. Their representative in the United States, Vardan Barseghian, says they still welcome Friday's peace talks.
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