MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Russia will continue efforts to see conditions created for the settlement in the mostly Armenian populated Azerbaijan’s breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on the basis that would be acceptable both for Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
"We exchanged assessments of the situation in Transcaucasia, including the Karabakh settlement," he said after talks with the Armenian counterpart, Edvard Nalbandyan.
"Russia will continue to contribute to creation of conditions for the settlement of that problem on an acceptable for all sides basis," Lavrov added.
Neighbouring Armenia and Azerbaijan fell out with each other in the late 1980s because of Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed territory that had been part of Azerbaijan before the Soviet Union break-up but was mainly populated by Armenians.
In 1991-1994, the confrontation spilled over into large-scale military action for control over the enclave and some adjacent territories. Thousands left their homes on both sides in a conflict that killed 30,000. A truce was called between Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh republic on one side and Azerbaijan on the other in May 1994.
No comments :
Post a Comment