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June 21, 2005 Tuesday 12:33 PM Eastern Time

Karabakh elections won’t influence peace process – diplomat

By Nikolai Morozov

PARIS

The recent ‘elections’ in Nagorno-Karabakh will not influence the
peace process and the future status of that territory, the French
Foreign Ministry press secretary said on Tuesday.

The future status of Nagorno-Karabakh is a subject of negotiations
supervised by the French, U.S. and Russian cochairmen of the OSCE
Minsk Group, he said.

France, the same as the entire international community, supports the
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and does not recognize
Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state, he said.

Nagorno-Karabakh held parliamentary elections on June 19 despite the
Azerbaijani protests. Baku wants to regain control over the
Armenian-populated territory, which proclaimed independence in 1991.
Armenia is the only country that recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as an
independent entity.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress