MAMMADYAROV: OFFICIAL BAKU INTERESTED IN FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF NAGORNO GARABAGH, INSEPARABLE PART OF AZERBAIJAN

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Nov 1 2006

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received OSCE standing
representative from Italy today, Foreign Ministry Press Service
Department told the APA.

Francesco Bascone was pleased with the activity of OSCE Office in
Baku and cooperation of governmental organizations with the office.

He took an interest in Mammadyarov’s viewpoint about the current
stage of negotiations in the direction of the settlement of
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.

Speaking about the settlement of the conflict Mammadyarov said that
the solution is possible only within the Azerbaijan’s territorial
integrity. He stressed the importance of granting autonomy to
the population of Nagorno Garabagh and ensuring peaceful life of
Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the region.

The Minister spoke of the necessity of releasing occupied territories
from Armenian armed forces, returning of the refugees to their
motherland and normalization of the life in the released territories.

Mammadyarov noted that Nagorno Garabagh Armenians are Azerbaijan
citizens and official Baku is interested in future development of
Nagorno Garabagh, Azerbaijan’s inseparable part. Bascone stressed the
importance on the main principles of the settlement of the conflict.