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`Nezavisimaya Gazeta’: It is Not Worth to Pin Special
Hopes on Oskanian-Mamedyarov Meeting
18.01.2007 16:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers Vartan Oskanian
and Elmar Mamedyarov will have a meeting in Moscow January
23. `Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ reports that the European Union hopes on
effectiveness of the meeting. `We hope on positive outcome of the
Moscow meeting between foreign ministers of both countries,’ stated
German Ambassador to Baku Per Stanchina. The diplomat of the country,
which currently holds EU presidency, underlined that the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict is a serious problem for Azerbaijan, because of
which the country is included both in the Action Plan of the framework
of the European Neighborhood Policy as in the Memorandum of Mutual
Understanding on Strategic and Energy Cooperation. `But the conflict
can be solved only by the parties,’ Stanchina stressed.

`NG’ also underlines Yerevan too speaks about the necessity to move
out the talks from stagnation. `Our policy in the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict issue is unchangeable: the status of Nagorno Karabakh must be
solved where the principle of self-determination of the population of
Nagorno Karabakh must be used,’ the other days stated the Armenian
foreign minister.

`In the conformity of approaches of Baku and Yerevan to the problem
the main contradiction, which concerns the status of Nagorno Karabakh,
is hardly possible to be solved. Baku is ready to view Nagorno
Karabakh only in a united Azeri State, since Yerevan will never accept
such an approach. And though Vartan Oskanian said that there is an
interesting offer on the table of negotiations and in case of showing
political will it is possible to reach progress, it is not worth to
pin special hopes,’ says the article.