SETTLEMENT BASED ON AZERBAIJAN TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY CENTER OF KARABAKH TALKS – BAKU

Interfax News Agency
Oct 21 2008
Russia

While saying that the right of nations to self-determination is the
subject of the talks on Karabakh settlement, Armenian President Serge
Sargsyan is distorting the truth, Baku said.

"We have made our position clear on this issue on many occasions, and
we have done so in lucid terms: the talks deal with the step-by-step
settlement of the conflict on the basis of the principle of
Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity," Azeri Foreign Ministry spokesman
Khazar Ibragim told Interfax.

Sargsyan told the press earlier on Tuesday that, Yerevan was "ready to
continue the talks guided by the Madrid principles" which, he said,
"include the recognition of the principle of self-determination and
the right of the people of Karabakh [to it]."