Leaders Of Azerbaijan, Armenia To Hold Karabakh Talks

NAKHCHEVAN, Azerbaijan, Sept 2 (AFP) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said Thursday he would hold talks later this month with his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian on the future of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Aliyev said the meeting with Kocharian would take place on the sidelines of a summit of former Soviet states which opens in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on September 15.
Under international law, Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan but since a war in the early 1990s the mountainous territory has been under de facto Armenian control.
More than a decade of sporadic peace talks has failed to settle the row and Azerbaijan has threatened to go to war again to drive out Armenian forces.
"We have not yet been able to reach an agreement, but the negotiations are continuing, they are dealing with specific issues, and I want to hope that they will produce results," Aliyev told reporters on a visit to the province of Nakhchevan in western Azerbaijan.