Medvedev Brokers Armenia-Azerbaijan Dispute

From The International Herald Tribune:
MOSCOW: President Dmitri Medvedev sought Sunday to underline Russia's influence in the Caucasus by bringing together the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia for talks on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a mostly ethnic Armenian population, broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s as the
Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a mostly ethnic Armenian population, broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s as the Soviet Union collapsed. It now runs its own affairs, with support from Armenia.

The Armenian president, Serzh Sargsian, and his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, shook hands before Medvedev opened talks at Meiendorf Castle, the official residence outside Moscow.

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