AZERI FM SIGNALS ‘BETTER UNDERSTANDING’ AFTER BRUSSELS TALKS

Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
Nov 17 2006

Azerbaijan’s foreign minister, who met his Armenian counterpart this
week, announced that the Brussels meeting had helped the Armenian and
Azeri sides ‘to start to understand more clearly’ the principles on
which they didn’t reach agreement.

"The meeting was pretty constructive, because we started to understand
more clearly the basic elements on which we cannot find the common
ground," Elmar Mamedyarov told the RFE/RL Azeri Service.

"It is important for to understand the vision of Armenia for the
future. I am really glad that Armenia also signed the Action Plan
of the European Neighborhood Policy. This means they [Armenians]
share the same European values, which definitely brings forward the
idea that if you want to be a member of the European community, you
cannot occupy the territory of another state, cannot conduct ethnic
cleansings, because this is not the way Europe lives," the Azeri
foreign minister said.

"If we move in this direction it will become clear that there is
no chance that using the Kalashnikov machine-gun you can change the
border or it can be a means for expelling the people from the homes
of their region and deciding the future of the territory. This is not
the way the international world is living now," Mamedyarov concluded.