AZERI LEADER MEETS ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS

Azartac news agency, Baku
29 Jun 07

28 June: A group of Azerbaijani and Armenian intellectuals visited
Xankandi [Stepanakert], Susa and then Armenia, and met Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan at the initiative of the Armenian and
Azerbaijani ambassadors to Russia in cooperation with the OSCE on
28 June.

On that day the group arrived in Baku from Yerevan. They were received
by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

[Passage omitted: names of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delegation
members]

The president once again expressed our state’s position on the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict. He stressed that the conflict could be settled only
on the basis of the principle of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity
and inviolability of borders and that a high degree of autonomy would
be offered to Karabakh.

[Day.az website, Baku, in Russian 0528 gmt 29 Jun 07, quoted head
of the international relations department at the presidential
administration, Novruz Mammadov, as saying in an interview with ANS
TV that the Azerbaijani ambassador’s visit to Karabakh had been agreed
with the Azerbaijani leadership;

APA news agency, Baku, in Azeri 1015 gmt 28 Jun 07 quoted the head
of the Azerbaijani community of Karabakh, Nizami Bahmanov, as saying
that the visit was aimed at creating mutual trust. He said this had
showed once again that Azerbaijan supported a peaceful solution to
the conflict.]

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress