Azerbaijani society should accept Karabakh Armenians as citizens, official says
by 525ci 21/04/2005 10:12

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
April 21 2005

The talks held on April 15 in London on the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict became continuation of the “Prague process”, a member of the
Azeri delegation in the talks Huseyn Huseynov told a press-conference
dedicated to the results of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of
Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Responding the question why the cochairmen of the Misnk group of
OSCE met separately with the ministers, he said “because of unknown
reasons V.Oskanian does not want to meet with E. Mamedyarov.”

Concerning the call of MG cochairmen to prepare the peoples of Armenia
and Azerbaijan to compromise Huseynov explained that Azerbaijan
is ready to admit the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh as full-right
citizens.

“Nagorno Karabakh is constituent part of Azerbaijan. Therefor, the
Azeri society must accept the Armenian population of the region as
its citizens,” Huseynov said.

He noted that for reintegration of the Armenian community into the
Azeri society it is necessary to work with it, to provide her safety
and to obtain economic progress of the region.

At the same time Huseynov noted that territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan couldn’t be a subject of discussing and compromises.
“Therefor, speaking about compromise we should understand preparation
of the society to co-existence with the Armenia population after
signing of peaceful agreement”.

Huseynov told that next round of the talks within the frameworks of
the “Prague process” will take place on April 27 in Frankfurt. But
he did not answer the question on the format of the meeting.

As well he did not answer the question if the presidents of the two
countries will meet in mid May. He said that the question will be
settled by the president themselves.