AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES NAGORNO-KARABAKH TALKS AS ‘STEP FORWARD’

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
Aug 30 2005

29 August 2005 — Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
said weekend talks between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia
over Nagorno-Karabakh marked a step forward.

But Mammadyarov told reporters in Baku today that “it’s still early
to speak of serious progress.”

Armenian President Robert Kocharian and his Azerbaijani counterpart,
Ilham Aliyev, discussed the conflict on 27 August following a CIS
summit in Kazan.

Mammadyarov said the issues being discussed include the return of
refugees and the restoration of roads and other contacts between
Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave separated from
the country by Armenian territory.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress