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Caucasus: Council of Europe discusses Karabakh conflict
The Ministers Council of the Council of
Europe met in Strasbourg on 23 January to assess the Armenian and Azerbaijani
commitments to their respective pledges to work for a peaceful solution
of the Karabakh conflict, according to Turan on 24 January and other Azerbaijani
media cited by Groong. Those sources reported that the participants considered
"shallow" a report delivered by the U.S., French, and Russian
co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group that focused on the anticipated impact
on the mediation process of the upcoming Armenian and Azerbaijani presidential
elections. The co-chairmen left the session without hearing statements
by the deputy foreign ministers of the two countries, Tatul Markarian and
Araz Azimov. The Armenian Foreign Ministry announced on 21 January that
in their capacity as representatives of their countries' presidents, the
two deputy foreign ministers would continue their talks on approaches to
resolving the Karabakh conflict, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported. It
is not clear, however, whether such talks took place. LF
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