Azeri leader upbeat on peaceful solution to Karabakh – agency

Azartac news agency, Baku
27 Jan 05

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that he hopes that
concrete results will be achieved in the talks to settle the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.

Despite the 10-year-long negotiations held within the framework of the
Minsk Group, no results have been achieved in the search for a
peaceful settlement to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict, President Aliyev said at a meeting with the new French
cochairman of the Minsk Group, Bernard Fassier, on 27 January.
However, intensification of the activities of the group and the
continuation of talks between the foreign ministers give us hope that
some progress will be achieved in the settlement of the conflict, the
state-owned Azartac news agency quoted Aliyev as saying.