LITHUANIA "READY" TO MEDIATE IN KARABAKH CONFLICT

ANS TV
13 Sep 07
Baku

Lithuania has offered to mediate a solution to the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ANS TV has reported.

Speaking at a joint news conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart
in Vilnius on 13 September, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said
that his country supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and is
ready to mediate, ANS said.

Adamkus said that during his one-to-one meeting with Ilham Aliyev,
they discussed economic relations between the two countries and
prospects for the Baku-Odessa-Brody-Gdansk oil pipeline.

He added that he invited Ilham Aliyev to continue talks on the project
during the energy summit to be held in Vilnius on 10-11 October.

ANS added that a joint business forum attended by the two presidents
was also held in Vilnius.

Aliyev said at the forum that despite full mutual understanding
on political issues between Azerbaijan and Lithuania, potential
opportunities in economic and trade relations have not been used yet,
ANS reported.

He said that the forum will open up new opportunities in joint
business, and trade between the two counties could be increased,
ANS reported.