THE PROBLEM ABOUT NAGORNYY KARABAKH STATUS AS SUCH IS NOT DISCUSSED, ELMAR MAMMADYAROV SAYS
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2007-11-29 17:40:00
ArmInfo. The problem about Nagornyy Karabakh status as such is
not discussed, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said
in Madrid today, where the 15th session of the Foreign Ministers’
Council of the OSCE member-states is taking place.
As ArmInfo correspondent reports from Madrid, when commenting on the
document about compromises submitted by the OSCE MG co-chairs today,
Elmar Mannadyarov said that the point is that ‘we should first of all
resolve a problem of cleaning the negotiating table from problems, and
this will make us closer to making a decision on the status. First, it
is occupation, the inner-displaced people, breaking of communications
and security problems.
Foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan together with the OSCE MG
co-chairs set up the principles which we have been discussing over
the last three years, which is called the talks within the frames
of the Prague process. We discussed the ideas which had been agreed
on. But there are several principle problems which we have to seek
settlement. If we find settlement at least of one principle problem,
the process may get under way’, – Azerbaijani foreign minister said.
He also added that the position of the Azerbaijani party on the
Karabakh settlement remains unchanged – Nagornyy Karabakh and its
citizens are a part of Azerbaijan. According to him, Azerbaijanis which
lived in Nagornyy Karabakh till 1988 should come back. this is their
legal right stemming from international conventions. Defining of the
status from the legal point of view is impossible as it is impossible
to define what a status Nagornyy Karabakh will have without the joint
residence of the people which lived there, Mammadyarov is sure.