AZERI FOREIGN MINISTER, US TOP DIPLOMAT DISCUSS KARABAKH CONFLICT
Interfax News Agency
October 3, 2008 Friday
Russia
Baku, 3 October: Baku and Yerevan should intensify the negotiations
for the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, US Deputy Secretary of
State John Negroponte has said.
"It is necessary to intensify the negotiations to accelerate
achievement of an agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia," Negroponte
said at a meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
on Friday [3 October] in Baku.
As Interfax-Azerbaijan news agency learnt from the Foreign Ministry of
the republic, for his part, Mammadyarov said that a resolution to the
Karabakh problem was only possible within the limits of Azerbaijan’s
territorial integrity. "Therefore, it is necessary for Armenia to
pullout troops from the occupied Azerbaijani territories and the return
of the refugees and IDPs there," the head of the Foreign Ministry said.
Negroponte has been on a visit to Azerbaijan since 2 October.