WE ARE DISCUSSING THE RELEASE OF 7 REGIOINS OF AZERBAIJAN, ELMAR MAMMADYAROV
2005-07-15 14:49
Azerbaijan News Service
July 15 2005
Foreign affairs ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia plan to discuss
Armenia-Azerbaijan Daqliq Qarabaq problem on August 22 in Moscow and
prepare for meeting of presidents of two countries on August 26 in
Kazan, informed Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign affairs minister of
Azerbaijan. The presidents told FA ministers to discuss several
concrete issues after Warsaw meeting. It is not so easy, so, the
question that we won~Rt reach an agreement on will be presented to
discussion of the presidents. I agreed to hold meeting and now I~Rm
waiting respond of Armenian side , said Mr. Mammadyarov. FA minister
informed ten points containing all elements of future agreement are
being discussed in negotiations. The question is release of occupied
by Armenians Azerbaijani lands, rehabilitation of territorial
integrity, restoration of communication, deployment of peacekeeping
forces. Exclusion of one of these points may lead to collapse of the
whole structure. So, we are preparing in all spheres, mentioned Mr.
Mammadyarov. The Minister refused to elaborate the essence of the
negotiations, only noted that they were based on a principle of
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the Constitution of the
country. The sides and mediators are currently discussing a set of
elements of the peaceful agreement, which range from the liberation
of 7 occupied regions, repatriation of the internally displaced
persons, reconstruction of the communications and territories, a
mechanism on placement of peacemaking forces in the territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh.Mammadyarov also informed that said the Azerbaijani
and Armenian Foreign Ministers will hold next-in-turn talks under a
meeting of the CIS Ministries of Foreign Affairs due in Moscow on 22
August 2005.He also said that the forthcoming meeting of the
Presidents in Kazan would slightly depend on the results of the
Moscow talks. The Azerbaijani Minister find it difficult to answer a
question on possible signing of any document during a meeting in
Kazan and proposed to wait for the results of the meeting of the OSCE
Minks Group co-chairs in Armenia. The question of placing peacekeeper
forces in the region after the Azerbaijani population returns to
their native lands in Upper Garabagh will be discussed after the
agreement is reached on the principal questions. Elmar Mammadyarov
said that this was decided in the Budapest summit of OSCE. According
to his words, the mandate of the peacekeepers will be determined by
the sides in the mutual form.