Azeri foreign minister, European officials discuss Karabakh settlement

MPA news agency
22 Sep 04

BAKU

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov yesterday received the
special envoy of the OSCE chairman-in-office for Armenia and
Azerbaijan, Filip Dimitrov, a responsible employee of the Bulgarian
Foreign Ministry, Dimitr Dimitrov, and the special envoy of the OSCE
chairman-in-office, Andrzej Kasprzyk. The press service of the Foreign
Ministry told MPA that the guests expressed the hope that they will be
able to assist a peaceful solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict. Mammadyarov pointed out that the world community could have
a positive influence on the settlement of the problem on the basis of
the norms and principles of international law.

On the same day, the Azerbaijani foreign minister had a meeting with
the British special envoy for the South Caucasus, Brian Fall. Touching
on the development of economic relations between the two countries,
Minister Mammadyarov pointed out the need for British entrepreneurs to
invest in the oil and non-oil sectors. The minister highly rated the
level of political contacts and expressed the hope that Britain would
support Azerbaijan’s position on the settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

The foreign minister also received Italian MP Marco Zacchera yesterday
who is on a visit to our country with the aim of gathering information
and preparing a report on Azerbaijan. Mammadyarov pointed out that all
conditions will be created for the MP to work successfully. The
Azerbaijani foreign minister stressed that Azerbaijan is a member of
the European family which has taken the path of democratic
development. In this connection, European institutions should increase
their role and participation in the settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.