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| 19:23:54 | 26-05-2005 | Politics |

TERRITORY OF KARABAKH BELONGS TO PEOPLE OF KARABAKH

`The control over the territories is the business of the NKR
authorities and the decisions on these territories cannot be taken
without the consent of the people of Karabakh’, NKR Foreign Minister
Arman Melikyan stated.

In his words, the statements by the Azeri officials regarding these
territories and withdrawal of the Armenian troops from there do not
correspond to reality.

No note, the NKR FM considers it is premature to judge about the
outcomes of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents’ meeting held last week
in Warsaw. `The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs consider that there is
progress, the FMs also speak of possible progress. But the progress in
not obvious yet. Anyway we should realize that any development of the
Karabakh problem or any preliminary agreement cannot be put into
practice without the consent and participation of the people of
Karabakh. In this view we should be calm and expect the outcomes of
the process. There are no outcomes yet. There are only optimistic
statements. If they are founded, it is good already’, the NKR FM
stated in his interview with NKR public television.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress