YEREVAN, March 15. /Mediamax/. The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it had invited the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to talks in April in Key West, Florida, to try to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Declaring it was a “major U.S. priority” to help resolve the conflict, the State Department said Secretary of State Colin Powell had invited Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev to talks on April 3.
The State Department said the talks in Key West, the last in a chain of islands off the southern Florida coast, would be sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and mediated by U.S., French and Russian experts. –0–