ARMENIAN SPOKESMAN URGES AZERBAIJAN TO NEGOTIATE WITH KARABAKH

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
17 Dec 04

(Presenter in studio) The press secretary of the Armenian Foreign
Ministry, Gamlet Gasparyan, has said while commenting on Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev’s remarks concerning Azerbaijan’s inclination
towards a stage-by-stage settlement that Armenia’s position on
the negotiations to resolve the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict remains
unchanged.

We state again that the negotiations to resolve the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict within the framework of the Prague process are held in a
package form and we are ready to continue doing that.

Gasparyan added that if the Azerbaijani side is still hesitating
as to who to hold the negotiations with, we have to repeat – with
Stepanakert.