ArmenPress
Dec 27 2004

BAKU READY TO NEGOTIATE WITH KARABAGH IF ARMENIA WITHDRAWS FROM TALKS

BAKU, DECEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS: A senior official of the
Azerbaijan’s president administration was quoted last Friday by
Russian Interfax news agency as saying that the official Baku was
ready to engage in dialogue with Nagorno Karabagh to end the conflict
on condition that Armenia withdraws officially from the negotiation
process.
Novruz Mamedov, the chief of external relations departments at Azeri
president Ilham Aliyev’s staff, said the dialogue with Nagorno
Karabagh was in principle possible, adding that in that case Armenian
leadership would have to officially walk out of the talks and promise
not to interfere. He said Azerbaijan would negotiate in that case
with Karabagh as an integral part of Azerbaijan.