MEETING OF AZERBAIJANI, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS NOT PROMISE SERIOUS PROGRESS – HEAD OF AZERBAIJANI COMMUNITY OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 13 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend , corr S.Ilhamgizi / Nizami Bahmaov, the
head of the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh, stated that a
meeting of the Azerbaijan and Armenian Foreign Ministers, organized
by the OSCE Minsk Group, does not promise any serious breakthrough
in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
He reminded that the meetings are continued within the framework of
the Paris agreement and said that the co-chairs will organize a next
meeting of the Ministers on 14 March. "I guess the discussions will
focus on some disputable milestones. The major progress can be expected
from the meeting of the Presidents of two countries," Bahmanov noted.
Bahmanov stressed that the continuation of peace talks is the
greatest compromise and any other compromise is out of question. He
was commenting on the statement by the Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian, who urged that should Azerbaijan make a compromise,
the progress is possible.
"It is not worth to expect a compromise from an belligerent country
in the ongoing peace negotiations," he stressed.