Azeri, Armenian foreign ministers meet in Kiev

The meeting was held on thesidelines of a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in the Ukrainiancapital.

Mediators representing theUS, Russia and France also attended the meeting, James Warlick of the US saidon Twitter, without giving any detail.

The Azeriand Armenian presidents, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, met in Vienna lastmonth for the first time in almost two years.

Armeniacaptured nearly 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognizedterritory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts, in a warafter the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.

Nearly20,000 Azeris were killed and a million displaced before Russia brokered a ceasefirein May 1994. The sides have yet to sign a peace agreement despite 20 years oftalks mediated by Russia, France and the United States.

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