Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Is Not Enthusiastic On Nagorno Karabakh

AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER IS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ON NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT PROCESS

Regnum, Russia
Dec 6 2006

Discussion of question of status by the whole Nagorno Karabakh
population is possible at a certain stage of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict settlement process, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov said speaking at a session of the OSCE ministers’
council in Brussels. "Being guided by democratic standards, legal
norms and human rights, we believe that the process of determining
the status will be carried out on the basis of equality with direct
and equal participation of the region’s population, which includes
two communities, Azerbaijani and Armenian ones, so the Azerbaijani
population should return under safe conditions to the paces of their
original living in Nagorno Karabakh region," he said.

"After that opening of communications for mutual use by the parties
in both directions, restoration of the relations between the two
communities and normal life in the region, of cooperation between
the communities in humanitarian sphere, implementation of special
educational and tolerance programs, establishment of trust between
the people and the nations will follow," the minister stressed.

Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani foreign minister said that "despite
intensified activity shown this year by OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs,
OSCE chair-in-office and the parties in the conflict, we have not
come to a final decision yet." At that Elmar Mammadyarov noted that he
was not enthusiastic on the whole settlement process, Day.Az informs.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS