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20:30 17/10/2008

DANIEL FREED: `TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY NOT THE ONLY PRINCIPLE’

`We think that the principle of territorial integrity is the major
principle of international law, but we’ve never said that this is the
only one. There are other norms of the international law, and one of
them is the right of self-determining and it is very difficult to
confront them,’ said Daniel Freed the Deputy of State Secretary of the
US. He added that Minsk group is working to confront those principle
norms and there are some improvements in this issue.

`We should try to solve the existing problems, and not dispute them,’
said Mr. Freed.

To the question whether it is logical that Nagorno Karabakh is kept
far from the negotiations on NKR conflict, Mr. Freed avoided to answer
it, but said that Minsk group’s goal is to regulate the conflict and
that they take active part both working in the frames of the Minsk
group and with the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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