Medvedev, Aliyev to discuss NKR problem in Baku

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will discuss the process of Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution in Baku. They will also address transportation of energy carriers via Caspian Sea, RIA Novosti reported citing Russian delegation’s source.

“We suppose the meeting with Aliyev will address the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” the source said.

Russia’s President will attend the Third Caspian Summit in Baku, will have a series of bilateral meetings, including with the Presidents of Kazakhstan and Iran.

 The Nagorno-Karabakh (armed) conflict broke out back in 1991, when, subsequent to the demand for self-determination of the Nagorno-Karabakh people, Azerbaijani authorities attempted to resolve the issue through ethnic cleansings, carried out by Soviet security forces (KGB special units) under the pretext of the implementation of the passport regime and by launching of large-scale military operations, which left thousands dead and caused considerable material damage. A cease-fire agreement was established in 1994. Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are being conducted under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen (Russia, USA, France) and on the basis of their Madrid proposals, presented in November, 2007.

Azerbaijan has not yet implemented the 4 resolutions of the UN Security Council adopted in 1993, by continuing to provoke arms race in the region and openly violating on of the basic principles of the international law non-use of force or threat of force.