Azerbaijan comes out for peaceful Karabakh settlement
By Sevindzh Abdullayeva, Viktor Shulman
ITAR-TASS News Agency
August 12, 2005 Friday
BAKU, August 12 — Azerbaijan comes out for the peaceful settlement
of the Karabakh conflict and intends to use the whole potential of
negotiations, Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev said at a meeting
with residents of Sumgait in the north of the Apsheron peninsula
on Friday.
“However, if they (talks) do not yield results, a new situation
will emerge and necessary decisions will be taken,” the Azerbaijani
president pointed out.
Azerbaijan has lost 20 percent of its territory as a result of the
Karabakh conflict, more than one million Azerbaijanis became refugees
and forced migrants.
According to the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno
Karabakh (Russia, France and the United States) “some positive changes
are observed” in the conflict settlement process. Some hopes are
anchored on the upcoming Moscow meeting of the foreign ministers of
Azerbaijan and Armenia on August 23, and the talks of the presidents
of the countries that will be held at the CIS summit in Kazan three
days later.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress