‘WE ACHIEVED PROGRESS IN MANY ISSUES’
AZG Armenian Daily #070, 20/04/2005
Karabakh issue
Elmar Mamediarov, Azeri foreign minister, stated that “progress has
been achieved in many issues” of the Nagorno Karabakh settlement
process. Mediamax informed that Mamediarov said this in the interview
to BBC after the April 15 meeting with Vartan Oskanian, RA foreign
minister, and the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs. “We have once more
confirmed the Prague process and defined the main directions of the
further work. Principally, progress has been fixed in many issues. But
still there are many issues left that we should continue working
on them. That’s why, we decided to meet once again in Frankfurt on
April 27,” Mamediarov said. In response to the question what are the
acceptable for Baku conditions that would help to mark progress in the
settlement Mamediarov said: “First of all, we demand the liberation of
the seven regions, restoration of communication and normal life for
the people, as well as improvement of demographic situation in the
region. Thus, in case of securing the relevant guarantees, we will
be able to get closer to the long-awaited peace, that the people of
Azerbaijan and I am sure the people of Armenia dreamed about for many
years. That is a very sensitive process but we should take decisions,”
he said. “There is a certain limit for mutual concessions, when we
speak of the concessions concerning the liberation of the occupied
territories. We are the side that lost, our lands are occupied, our
people are exiled from their dwelling places and in this context,
our position is certainly a definite one, the people should return
to their homes,” Mamediarov said.