BAKU: CIS Conflicts Impede Development Of Relations Among Countries:

CIS CONFLICTS IMPEDE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS AMONG COUNTRIES: HEAD-OF-STAFF OF PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE POWER

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
Sept 6 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend E.Huseynli / The Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh should be resolved within the framework
of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and with a condition of
repatriation of all refugees, Ramiz Mehdiyev, the head-of-staff of
the Azerbaijani President’s Executive Power, said in a meeting of
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Interior Ministers
in Baku on 6 September.

On 6 September a meeting of the CIS Interior Minister set up its work
in Baku. Chairmanship of the organization was passed from Kazakhstan
to Azerbaijan. Armenian interior ministries also in attendance.

According to Mehdiyev, regional conflicts in CIS impede the development
of relations between the countries. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh is one of them.

Azerbaijan supports the resolution of the conflict is a peaceful
manner.

Terrorism gives birth to a more global threat. Thanks to joint
activities of the Interior Ministers of CIS member-countries, many
dangerous crimes were avoided in the region, Mehdiyev said.

The meeting will conclude on 7 September.