The 19th meeting of the foreign ministers of the OSCE opened today in Dublin. Eamon Gilmore, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland said that activation of conflict on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops since April of this year testifies to the need for a rapid response to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as it is so harmful to the peoples of the region, according to the Turan correspondent in Dublin.
He also expressed his gratitude to his personal representative Andzhey Kasprzyk "for his active work in the region" to prevent the escalation of incidents.
"We work for the benefit of our citizens. I call on everyone, to cooperate and demonstrate the relevance of our organization, by the coming in 2015, the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki," said Gilmore as he addressed the Council of Foreign Ministers OSCE.—04C06-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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