BAKU TO PRESENT UNCHANGED POSITION TO OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS – AZERI FM
Author: E.Huseynov

TREND, Azerbaijan
May 23 2006

Baku for the next time will present to the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
its unchanged position on the resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated on 22 May. He was commenting on
the forthcoming visit of the OSCE Minks Group co-chairs to Baku on
24-25 May 2006, Trend reports.

According to Mammadyarov, Azerbaijan is keen on achievement of the
peace in the region and regards by-stage resolution of the conflict
the most optimal way. “If by-stage process becomes effective, in
the first stage the occupied Azerbaijani district attached to the
Nagorno-Karabakh will liberated, the internally displaced people
will be returned to their lands. The next stage, of course, will be
the repatriation of Azerbaijanis replaced from Nagorno-Karabakh and
Shusha. Following the establishment of the normal living condition,
the economy should function,” the minister underlined.

Mammadyarov noted that after it is possible to discuss the status
of Nagorno-Karabakh.