I hope that an agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will besigned at the forthcoming presidential meeting in Kazan- PACE President

I hope that an agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will besigned at the forthcoming presidential meeting in Kazan- PACE President

PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu hopes that an agreement on theNagorno-Karabakh conflict will be signed at the forthcomingpresidential meeting in Kazan.

"I hope that an agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will besigned at the forthcoming presidential meeting in Kazan," Cavusoglusaid at in Strasbourg at a press conference within the PACE summersession.

"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will preside at the meeting," hesaid. "Nobody will be happy if an agreement is not signed at thismeeting to resolve the conflict. We are pleased with the advancementsin this context."

Expressing his attitude to the activity of the subcommittee onNagorno-Karabakh, PACE president said that the resolutions adopted bythe organization must be implemented.

"Regarding the activity of the subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh, I cansay that our Assembly has adopted many recommendations, resolutionsand statements on this issue," he said.

The Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian presidents will meet in Kazan on June 24.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenianarmed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. Theco-chairs of the OSCE MinskGroup - Russia, France, and the U.S. - arecurrently holding peace negotiations.


Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's fourresolutions on the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surroundingregions.

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