Baku ready to keep on talking on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement

TREND, Azerbaijan
July 16 2006

Trend 17/07/2006 01:14

Azerbaijan is ready to keep on talking for peaceful settlement
of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Trend reports quoting Azeri Foreign
Minister Elmar Mamedyarov.

He said in the event of necessity Azeri officials, in particular
Mamedyarov himself, might meet in any place and discuss peaceful
settlement. "But the meeting should not pass with no use. There should
be some result, we shall feel our advancement", minister said.

Commenting co-chairmen statements ‘now initiatives are for the
parties’, Mamedyarov said ‘co-chairmen are appointed to offer the
parties some proposals and coordinate their positions’. He also said
unless there was a necessity in co-chairmen, official Baku would have
conversed with Armenians independently and solved this matter long ago.

"I am optimistic in this matter. Earlier or later, this problem will be
solved. But we want it to be solved faster, as there are many refugees
and IDPs in Azerbaijan who are willing to get home. I believe we will
solve the problem, peacefully or not", concluded Mamedyarov.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress