Azerbaijan effectively rejected the renewed international calls for the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to unconditionally withdraw snipers from "the line of contact" and agree to joint investigations of growing truce violations there, RFE/RL Armenian service reports.
Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, the chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, voiced such calls when visiting Yerevan and Baku this week. He reportedly insisted on the need for a concrete mechanism for such investigations after talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on Thursday.
News reports quoted Mammadyarov as saying that Baku agrees with the idea, advanced by international mediators, in principle. "But that mechanism could work only when Armenian troops start withdrawing from Azerbaijan's occupied territories," he said, according to the APA news agency. "Only in that case can the mechanism be put into action."
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