Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian says upcoming talks in Geneva should cause "a positive shift" toward settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported.

Since the May 1994 cease-fire that effectively froze hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan has paid scant attention to reforming its armed forces.

An international group that aims to bring about a peaceful resolution over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to prepare for compromise.

The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Moscow today for talks on the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet in Moscow today for a fresh round of talks on the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Turkish-Armenian border will remain closed in the absence of a breakthrough in international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to Kaan Soyak, a Turkish businessman who has long campaigned for the normalization of relations between Ankara and Yerevan.

"Caucasus is far away. It's a knotty place, even more knotty than the Balkans. That is why the West's attention should be drawn here," said the author of the "Black Garden", British journalist Thomas de Waal.

Armenia's foreign minister says he will meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart on January 23 in Moscow to renew talks on the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

"It is not late to consider the interests of Armenia in our proposals, that's to say, Karabakh can be granted sovereignty. In future this chance might disappear", Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, announced today.