BAKU CRITICIZES US DIPLOMAT OVER MEETING WITH KARABAKH SEPARATISTS

Lider TV
Sept 14 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan’s commercial Lider TV has criticized a US diplomat over
visiting the breakaway Nagornyy Karabakh region.

The meeting that the US co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group which
mediates a solution to the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Matthew Bryza,
had with Karabakh separatists shows that he wants to see them at the
negotiating table, Lider TV reported on 14 September.

"Matthew Bryza has repeatedly called for this. However, he then claimed
that his remarks were misinterpreted," the TV report said. Bryza
should know that it is Armenia and Azerbaijan who have to resolve
the conflict because it was Armenia that occupied Nagornyy Karabakh,
a region of Azerbaijan, the report added.

"The US diplomat who satisfied Armenians in Armenia will visit
Azerbaijan in a few days and will tell us here what we want to hear,"
the TV report concluded.