{"id":253494,"date":"2014-05-19T14:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253494"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:09:22","slug":"karabakh-residents-block-road-during-osce-minsk-groups-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/19\/karabakh-residents-block-road-during-osce-minsk-groups-visit.html","title":{"rendered":"Karabakh Residents Block Road During OSCE Minsk Group&#8217;s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Residents of Kashatagh (Lachin) blocked the road during a May 17 visit of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs James Warlick (US), Igor Popov (Russia), and Jacques Faure (France) to Karabakh, greeting them with a protest demonstration.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe co-chairs got out of their car and spoke with protestors. Also with them was soon-to-be OSCE Minsk Group French Co-Chair Pierre Andieux and Karabakh foreign minister Karen Mirzoyan, <a href=\"http:\/\/regnum.ru\/news\/1802999.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>reports Russian news agency Regnum<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [RU].\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the rally, demonstrators expressed outrage over the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs&#39; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/mg\/118419\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>recent joint statement<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. They were also outraged by US Co-Chair James Warlick&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/07\/peace-in-karabakh-conflict-within-reach-ambassador-james-warlick.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>May 7 statement<\/strong><\/span><\/a> outlining the six points necessary for a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Karabakh residents, in particular, did not like the point about &quot;the occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh should be returned to Azerbaijani control,&quot; to which Ambassador Warlick, without going into details, said: &quot;Negotiations are ongoing.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe mediators then had a closed-door meeting with head of the Kashatagh (Lachin) administration Suren Khachatryan. The co-chairs also met with President of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan on May 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier, the co-chairs visited Armenia to discuss Karabakh settlement with the country&#39;s leadership. A visit to Baku is also planned.&nbsp;<\/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>Residents of Kashatagh (Lachin) blocked the road during a May 17 visit of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs James Warlick (US), Igor Popov (Russia), and&#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":253490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55330,10665,12032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253494"}],"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=253494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}