PRESSURE ON ARMENIA INCREASING (VIDEO)

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
May 21 2007

An extract from the Trend’s interview with the head of the Foreign
Relations Department at the Executive Administration of Azerbaijani
President, Novruz Mammadov.

– The parliamentary elections in Armenia are over. Before the elections
it was said that they keep the negotiations back. What can be expected
just now? Is the settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and
Armenia possible?

– Actually, in a normal and stable country elections should not affect
this kind of negotiations. The Armenian government and certain circles
use the events as an excuse not to hold meetings and to delay the
negotiations. We have a sort of agreement on several issues.

However, we have not agreed on the principal matters yet. Anyway,
the negotiations must be continued. Armenia agrees on negotiations
only in order to avoid accusation by the world’s community.

The pressure on Armenia is increasing. It deals the process of
negotiations, the positions of the co-chairmen and international
organization, economic and military development of Azerbaijan.

Armenians want to do something, but their administration cannot dare
and recognize that they have been holding Azerbaijani lands under
occupation for many years. At first we have to liberate the seven
regions and to define the status of Nagorno-Karabakh within the
framework of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress