Pashinyan describes meeting with Aliyev as normal
29.03.2019,
17:53
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Russian news agency TASS that his meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement in Vienna today was normal.
YEREVAN, March 29. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Russian news agency TASS that his meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement in Vienna today was normal. "The meeting proceeded normal," he said, getting into the car.
Following tête-à-tête meeting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev were joined by their respective foreign ministers and the OSCE Minsk Group co-co-chairs from USA, Russia and France for negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“The meeting continued with the participation of the foreign ministers and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs,” Pashinyan’s press secretary Vladimir Karapetyan said.
The tête-à-tête meeting of Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev lasted for two hours. Prior to this, Pashinyan and Aliyev met in St. Petersburg, Dushanbe and Davos.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed.
Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year.
On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. -0---
Following tête-à-tête meeting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev were joined by their respective foreign ministers and the OSCE Minsk Group co-co-chairs from USA, Russia and France for negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“The meeting continued with the participation of the foreign ministers and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs,” Pashinyan’s press secretary Vladimir Karapetyan said.
The tête-à-tête meeting of Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev lasted for two hours. Prior to this, Pashinyan and Aliyev met in St. Petersburg, Dushanbe and Davos.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed.
Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year.
On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. -0---
