ILHAM ALIEV: COMMON APPROACHES SHOULD BE APPLIED TO ALL CONFLICTS

Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 12 2006

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev considers it necessary to apply
common approaches based on international law to settlement of all
conflicts. The Azeri President said this in a joint press conference
with the President of Romania Traian Basescu," INTERFAX agency reports.

"Such approach should be applied to all conflicts. There should be
no exceptions here, since otherwise it can lead to painful results,"
said Ilham Aliev. He underlined that there a re a number of this kind
of problems in the world, and the alternative resolution of these
not based on the norms of international law comprises danger for the
whole world. The Azerbaijani President stressed that "Baku stands for
withdrawal of Armenian troops from Nagorno Karabakh and restoration
of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and this approach is based
on norms f international law." "Secession of Nagorno Karabakh from
Azerbaijan, creation of the second Armenia on Azerbaijani territory or
Karabakh’s joining Armenia are no topics for negotiation," Ilham Aliev
underlined. By the way Ilham Aliev has reconfirmed Baku’s willingness
to provide security guarantees to Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh and
to grant the highest level of autonomy within Azerbaijan. "We would
organizations other than the OSCE to express their stance on this
conflict," Aliev said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress