{"id":162000,"date":"2012-02-16T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T10:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=162000"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:08:09","slug":"armenia-azerbaijan-presidents-friendly-but-karabakh-conflict-wont-be-resolved-soon-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/16\/armenia-azerbaijan-presidents-friendly-but-karabakh-conflict-wont-be-resolved-soon-tweet.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia, Azerbaijan Presidents &#8216;Friendly&#8217; But Karabakh Conflict Won&#8217;t be Resolved Soon: Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Popov, the Russian co-chair of the Minsk Group, which is the OSCE group tasked with mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, told the International Crisis Group&#8217;s Europe Program Director Sabine Freizer Gunes that he doesn&#8217;t think the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be solved soon, according to a <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SabineICG\/status\/170083505341071361\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">tweet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> sent by Freizer Gunes from her personal Twitter account earlier today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet1_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-161992\" title=\"Sabine.Freizer.tweet1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet1_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet1_2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet1_2-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tweet above was followed by <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SabineICG\/status\/170083989888057345\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">another<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> soon after. The more positive message read &#8220;But the good news from Popov: It is most important that the Prezs (Arm + Azer) r friendly&#8230; the atmosphere in Sochi was excellent,&#8221; referring to the last meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Russian resort town of Sochi on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet2_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-161993\" title=\"Sabine.Freizer.tweet2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet2_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet2_2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sabine.Freizer.tweet2_2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note, the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan after a bloody war in the 1990s and is populated mainly by ethnic Armenians. Today it exists as a de-facto independent state under an uneasy ceasefire, and OSCE-brokered efforts to resolve its status have so far been unsuccessful. Despite a ceasefire agreement in place since 1994, there have been regular skirmishes along the &#8220;line of contact&#8221; patrolled by Karabakh and Azerbaijan forces.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Popov, the Russian co-chair of the Minsk Group, which is the OSCE group tasked with mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, told the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,10265,15017,10665,11793,13901,25256,25255,38238,10229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}