‘EUROPEAN AUTONOMY’ FOR NOW

AZG Armenian Daily #178
05/10/2005

At a joint press conference with his Latvian counterpart the
Azerbaijani President stated that Nagorno Karabakh could get autonomy
with a status resembling those autonomies existing in Europe. President
Vaira Vike-Freiberga said on her part that Latvia holds to the European
Union’s stance over Karabakh issue. The Latvian President, who makes
official visits in the South Caucasian republics from October 3 to 8,
said that violation of sovereign state’s territorial integrity is a
worrisome factor.

The Latvian president’s visit will continue in Georgia today, and she
will head for Armenia on October 6. This is the second case in the last
two weeks that a female president visits Caucasus. The first female
leader to visit South Caucasus last week was Tarja Halonen of Finland.