A conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia broke out in 1991 over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Negotiations have so far failed to produce a permanent peace agreement.
Nalbandyan said Armenia supported the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, which encourages peace negotiations to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, and would keep supporting it.
Referring to the OSCE co-chairs of the Minsk Group meeting in Vienna on July 13, Nalbadyan said " We have set a date for peace talks in this meeting. A summit may be held and Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents may come together by the end of 2013."
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15/7/13
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Armenia says Aliyev win best hope for Karabakh conflict...
ReplyDeleteArmenia's president has said a win for strongman incumbent Ilham Aliyev in Azerbaijan's upcoming presidential election offers the best hope of resolving a deadlock over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region The two sides are locked in a bitter decades-long feud over the fate of Nagorny Karabakh.
Armenia-backed separatists seized the territory from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 dead, and no final peace deal has been signed since a 1994 ceasefire despite ongoing talks.
"A democratic Azerbaijan is definitely preferable for us as a neighbour, especially as a partner in talks," President Serzh Sarkisian said in a statement released late Saturday. "I would not say just now that the negotiating process is active, nevertheless we have traversed quite a long road, and if after talks Aliyev is able to demonstrating some will and rise above his mania of Armenia-phobia, I think this is the most acceptable and preferable option for us." Flush with petrodollars, oil-rich Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force if negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed massive retaliation against any military action.
Aliyev, who took over when his father died in 2003, is the overwhelming favourite to win presidential polls in October.
Human rights activists have accused him of stepping up a campaign to stifle opposition and strangle dissent in the run-up to the poll.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/armenia-says-aliyev-win-best-hope-for-karabakh-conflict.aspx?pageID=238&nid=52734
19/8/13
Russia, Armenia agree to contribute to Karabakh conflict resolution by political means..
ReplyDeleteNOVO OGARYOVO, September 3 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Armenia have agreed to contribute to the soonest settlement of the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh by political means.
Presidents of Russia and Armenia, Vladimir Putin and Serzh Sargsyan, have signed a joint statement to this effect.
The presidents of both countries “confirmed the commitment to resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by peaceful means within the OSCE Minsk Group based on the principles of non-use of force or the threat of force, territorial integrity of states, equality and people’s right to self-determination”, the statement says.
“In order to ensure regional stability and security Russia and Armenia expressed readiness to further strengthen cooperation and improve military-political and military-technical relations,” the statement says.
Sargsyan said much attention was riveted to the settlement of regional conflicts. “The parties confirmed that they were ready to settle the conflict by exclusively peaceful means,” the Armenian president said.
He said Armenia was also ready to search for ways to overcome the crisis and solve all problems in compliance with the Joint Statement made by the presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, the U.S. and France).
http://www.itar-tass.com/c154/863036.html
3/9/13
Le rapprochement de l'Arménie avec la Russie complique ses rapports avec l'UE...
DeleteLe rapprochement de l'Arménie avec la Russie devrait compliquer ses rapports économiques avec l'Europe. L'Arménie vient en effet d'intégrer une union douanière dominée par la Russie. Une décision qui empêchera la signature d'accords de libre-échange avec l'Union européenne (UE), ont annoncé mardi les autorités lituaniennes, qui assument la présidence tournante de l'UE.
L'Union douanière, que vient d'intégrer l'Arménie, est actuellement composée de la Russie, son principal allié, mais aussi de la Biélorussie et du Kazakhstan. Elle doit, selon les projets de Moscou, déboucher sur une union économique eurasiatique. Un projet soutenu par Vladimir Poutine, qui milite pour une intégration toujours plus étroite des pays de l'ex-URSS dans le giron russe.....http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2013/09/03/l-entree-de-l-armenie-dans-l-union-douaniere-russe-complique-ses-relations-avec-l-union-europeenne_3470661_3214.html#xtor=RSS-3208
3/9/13
Armenia Ready to Join Russia-Led Customs Union – President...
DeleteNOVO-OGARYOVO, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – Armenia is ready to join the Moscow-led Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and later take part in establishing the Eurasian Economic Union, Armenia’s president said in a statement Tuesday.
“Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan voiced Armenia’s decision to join the Customs Union and take the relevant required practical steps, and later participate in forming the Eurasian Economic Union,” said the statement, jointly issued by the administrations of Sargsyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin after they met for talks.
Putin backed Armenia’s decision and “expressed the Russian side’s readiness to contribute to the process in every possible way,” the statement said.
Moscow hopes all members of the Customs Union would back Yerevan’s decision to join it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have agreed to establish the proposed Eurasian Economic Union by 2015. The union is intended as an alternative to the European Union that will be mostly comprised of former Soviet republics.
At a time when Armenia is choosing between EU and Eurasian integration, there appear to be certain contentions between Moscow and Yerevan, including Russia’s raising of natural gas rates and planned weapons deliveries to Azerbaijan, with which Armenia is at loggerheads over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have been strained for more than two decades, since the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian region, first erupted in 1988. The region then claimed independence from Azerbaijan to join Armenia.
Over 30,000 people are estimated to have died on both sides between 1988 and 1994, when a ceasefire was agreed. Nagorno-Karabakh has remained in Armenian control and tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia have persisted.....http://en.rian.ru/politics/20130903/183147413/Armenia-Ready-to-Join-Russia-Led-Customs-Union--President.html
3/9/13
EU Expects Armenia to Clarify Customs Deal With Russia...
DeleteBRUSSELS, September 4 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union is waiting for Armenia to provide clarification of its decision to enter the Moscow-led Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, a spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy chief said Wednesday.
Yerevan is currently choosing between EU and Eurasian integration. The country is to preliminarily sign an association agreement and a free-trade deal with the European Union during the November 2013 EU and Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius. The deals with Russia and Europe are mutually exclusive.
Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Catherine Ashton, told journalists that Brussels needed clarification from Yerevan in order to evaluate potential consequences of Armenia joining the Customs Union.
The presidents of Armenia and Russia, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, announced after bilateral talks on Tuesday that Armenia was ready to join the union, expected to be developed into a broader economic community uniting post-Soviet states.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130904/183166753/EU-Expects-Armenia-to-Clarify-Customs-Deal-With-Russia.html
4/9/13
UE-Arménie: Bruxelles refuse de parapher l'accord d'association...
DeleteL'Union européenne n'a pas l'intention de parapher les accords d'association et de création d'une zone de libre-échange avec l'Arménie, a déclaré jeudi Peter Stano, porte-parole de Stefan Füle, commissaire pour l'élargissement et la politique européenne de voisinage, au service arménien de la Radio Liberty.
Ces accords sont incompatibles avec la participation à l'Union douanière (Biélorussie-Kazakhstan-Russie) dont l'Arménie compte devenir membre, selon le porte-parole.
L'Arménie et l'UE devaient signer l'accord d'association lors du prochain sommet du Partenariat oriental prévu à Vilnius, en Lituanie, les 28 et 29 novembre, selon l'agence News Armenia.
Les présidents russe et arménien, Vladimir Poutine et Serge Sargsian, ont annoncé mardi dernier, à l'issue d'un sommet bilatéral à Moscou, que l'Arménie rentrerait dans l'Union douanière et participerait à la création de l'Union économique eurasienne.
http://fr.rian.ru/world/20130906/199238220.html
6/9/13
Armenia, Azerbaijan presidents agree to meet this month to discuss ways to settle Karabakh issue...
ReplyDeleteYEREVAN, November 6 (Itar-Tass) - The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serge Sargsyan and Ilkham Aliyev, have agreed to meet this month after an almost two-year interval, the Co-Chairmen of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh annnounced. They represent Russia, France, and the United States.
"Sargsyan and Aliyev have reaffirmed their readiness to meet in order to specify their approaches to a settlement of the problem and discuss the possibility of headway in this respect," says a statement issued by the Co-Chairmen and circulated here at the close of their regular tour of the region.
Ambassadors Igor Popov (Russia), Jacues Faure (France) and James Warlick (USA), as well as Andrzej Kaspsik, personal envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, visited Baku on November 4, and Yerevan on November 5 "to help the sides in the search for ways to settle the conflict over Karabakh," the document points out. They stated that they "will go on working on the forthcoming meeting" between the leaders of the two countries.
The Co-Chairmen called on the sides "to show restrainy both at the place and in public statemnts". "Any military action may be viewed only as an attempt at impairing the peace process," the mediators warned.
http://www.itar-tass.com/c32/943235.html
6/11/13
Turkey could reopen railway in parallel with Karabakh progress ...
ReplyDeleteTurkey could amenable to reopening the long-closed railway link between Kars and Armenia if Yerevan and Baku make progress in solving the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, diplomatic sources have said.
Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev will visit Turkey on Nov. 12, during which “creative ideas” to create peace and stability in the region will be high on the agenda, according to diplomatic sources. One of those “creative ideas” is to reopen the Turkey-Armenia railway, contingent upon parallel progress in solving the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been occupied by Armenia for two decades, diplomatic sources told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday.
The Kars-Gyumri section of the Kars-Gyumri-Tbilisi railway line has not been operational since 1993, when Turkey closed the border with Armenia amid its war with Azerbaijan for Nagorno-Karabakh...............http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-could-reopen-railway-in-parallel-with-karabakh-progress-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=57565&NewsCatID=355
8/11/13