VAGIF SADIKHOV: CHANCES FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT ARE REDUCING BUT AZERBAIJAN WILL BE LOYAL TO ITS COMMITMENTS TILL THE END

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2008-06-03 16:15:00

ArmInfo. ‘Azerbaijan has always been open to compromises and we have
sacrificed to much for the negotiation process during all achievements
and drops, during all changes and problems in the international life
around this process both in Armenia and in Azerbaijan’, Deputy Foreign
Minister of Azerbaijan Vagif Sadikhov said in an interview with Day.az.

The deputy minister underlined that Azerbaijan side always undertook
steps for not going beyond this line between the principal position
and compromises. ‘It is clear to everybody that there are strategic
principles backed by strategic interests. But in the framework of this
strategy a country has any tactic plans, which is normal, checks it
in advance considering its own potential and opportunities of other
countries in the predicted situation. Sometimes the development of
this situation cannot depend on us, when something occurs somewhere
and situation may change.

Therefore, we do not make the word "compromise" abstract, but at
the same time we study thoroughly what we are proposed and what we
are presented in the package of compromises. I can say that whatever
is said by different parties the executive power of Azerbaijan has
never forgotten the principal position of the Azerbaijani state and
Azerbaijani people and the whole work on the negotiation process has
always been carried out on the basis of an exact plan’, he said.

Sadikov also added that compromises, as a basis of a negotiation
process, no matter whether it is Karabakh or any other issue, are
a normal event. People come to the negotiation table, when they are
ready to sacrifice something, concede in something and finally come
to a coordinated decision, he said.