MANN OPTIMISTIC OVER KARABAKH ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2006 19:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev regards the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict as his country’s major problem. He made
a statement while addressing to the Foreign Relations Council,
which commenced his first official visit to the United States. The
President voiced his hope that the current talks on Nagorno Karabakh
“will create necessary conditions for just and durable peace, based
on the principles of the international law.” “We hope that the
United States as a superpower and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing
states will contribute to the resolution of the conflict,” Aliyev
underscored. Baku is sure that the settlement can be peaceable and
“only the international rule of law can be a base for talks,” he
emphasized. “The territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is recognized
by UN and all world countries, except Armenia,” he stated.

US Ambassador Steven Mann, an OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, who was
present at the meeting, stated he was gong to visit Moscow next week
for next round of consultations which his colleagues. He is optimistic
and he believes “an efficient base for compromise is discovered.” The
US Ambassador particularly considered important the principle of
refusal from attempts of complete resolution of the exiting problems
available once and for all. He explained that the current approach
was just the opposite: movement forward step by step and leaving some
difficult issues for future, Itar-Tass reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress