The next meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian President Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkisyan on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will take place at early 2009, Novruz Mammadov, chief of International Relations Department of Azerbaijan's Presidential Administration, said to reporters. The date and venue of the meeting will be negotiated.
The next meeting of the two Presidents was negotiated at the meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers within the OSCE Foreign Ministers' meeting in Helsinki held on Dec. 4-5.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful negotiations. Last time Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Moscow on Nov. 2. with the mediation of Russian President.
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