AZERBAIJAN WILL NOT DISCUSS TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AT KARABAKH SETTLEMENT TALKS – MINISTRY

Russia & CIS General Newswire
December 19, 2007 Wednesday 5:12 PM MSK

Spokesman for the Azeri Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibragim accused
Armenia of distorting the essence of the talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement.

"Azerbaijan does not discuss and will never discuss its territorial
integrity," the spokesman said on Wednesday in a statement.

The talks are based on a position that clearly reflects the need to
restore Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, the spokesman said.

Searching for any peaceful settlement opportunity Azerbaijan has
always shown good will, Ibragim said. "We do not believe that
diplomatic efforts [to resolve the conflict] have been exhausted,"
the statement reads.