MAMMEDYAROV: NK CONFLICT RESOLUTION TALKS HAVE TO BE CONTINUED
Author: R. Abdullayev

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 27 2006

“Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution talks have to be continued.

Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry is ready to go on negotiations and there
can be no timeout, “Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, Elmar Mammedyarov
told on March 27, adding that “works within the frames of the Paris
process have to be continued”, Trend reports.

“This is the position of the president Ilham Aliyev. However, if
the dialog will be fruitless, we will apply another measures,” the
minister said.

Commenting the statement made the Armenian Foreign minister, Vardan
Oskanyan, claiming that “in the modern state of things next step in
negotiations has to

be done by Azerbaijan”, the minister said that “this sort of statements
have an aim of affecting domestic policies in Armenia.”

“Azerbaijani position remains unchanged. We were talking and we
are talking about the liberation of the occupied lands. Territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan has to be restored. Refugees and forcibly
displaced persons have to be returned to their homes,” Mammedyarov
said, adding that any sort of the conflict regulation has to be in
accordance with the Azerbaijani constitution.

“If we want to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem we have to consider
the international law principles as well,” the Minister concluded.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress