AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN LEADERS HELD NEGOTIATIONS ON GARABAGH CONFLICT
Azerbaijan Business Center
Jan 29 2009
Azerbaijan
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan conducted
yesterday in Zurich negotiations with his Armenian counterpart Serzh
Sargsyan within the framework of peaceful settlement of Nagorno
Garabagh conflict.
The Azerbaijani Presidential Administration’s press service informs
that after talks there were held tete-a-tete consultations with
involvement of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.
A day before Khazar Ibrahim, the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of
Foreign Affairs press service, claimed that Azerbaijan has reiterated
its position which conforms fully to norms of international law that,
in its turn, was also covered in the Moscow Declaration and other
documents.
"The conflict can be settled only on the basis in compliance
with international norms on the basis of territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan. Armenia should understand that moves it takes for
conflict settlement out of this framework will hardly promote to its
settlement," Ibrahim said.
He pointed out that on 27 January foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov
of Azerbaijan met separately with the MG co-chairs in Zurich and
then a joint meeting with participation of mediators and his Armenian
counterparts took place. In the meeting thre parties discussed mainly
technical issues surrounding a meeting of two countries’ presidents.