Georgia urges Armenia, Azerbaijan to start dialogue

Georgia has held a Security Council meeting on Saturday to discuss conflict raging between its neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan over breakaway region of Nagor Karabakh.

situation has a serious negative impact on regional security and ecomic development, statement issued after meeting said.

Since escalation of conflict, government of Georgia has temporarily suspended issuing of permits for transition of military cargo through its territory in direction of both countries.

President Salome Zurabishvili urged co-chairs of OSCE Minsk group to take all necessary measures to stop violence and resume dialogue.

Georgia has offered to host a meeting of representatives of conflicting sides in Tbilisi.

Armenia and Azerbaijan said heavy fighting continued in ir conflict over Nagor-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan's president criticising international mediators who have tried for deces to resolve dispute.

Both nations have been locked for deces in a conflict over Nagor-Karabakh, where a separatist war was fought in early 1990s until three years after breakup of Soviet Union.

region in Caucasus Mountains of about 4,400 square kilometers (1,700 square miles), roughly size of US state of Delaware, is 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Armenian border.

It has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces and Armenian military since 1994 end of a full-scale separatist war that killed about 30,000 people and displaced an estimated 1 million.

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