NO PROSPERITY WITHOUT PEACE – US OFFICIAL

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
April 11 2006

Baku, April 10, AssA-Irada
Azerbaijan wants to earn significant resources by producing and
exporting its oil and gas but this can only become a possibility in
the event of peace in the region, the Department of State Assistant
Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Daniel Fried, has told
European journalists in Washington.

Fried said the most important issue to the negotiated settlement of
the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict is that Azerbaijan and Armenia
have to understand that neither of them can receive everything at once.

“Neither country can get the maximum. At the same time, it cannot
happen that either of them receives nothing at all. Both countries
have interests at stake and these interests have to be taken into
account,” he said.