Interfax, Russia
June 5 2009

Aliyev, Sargsyan addressed all issues of Karabakh settlement process –
Azeri minister

BAKU June 5

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart Serzh
Sargsyan discussed the whole range of matters related to the
settlement of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh at a meeting in
St. Petersburg on June 4, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
told journalists on Friday.

"All issues were addressed," Mammadyarov said.

Negotiations have been underway on "principles that have been
formulated in the past five years," the Azeri minister said.

This work "started as the Prague process and later found expression in
the Madrid document," he said.

"There is a better understanding on some of these principles.

Certain clarity has been achieved on some of them that have been
discussed at the level of our presidents," Mammadyarov said.

Although the latest presidential talks did not lead to a breakthrough
in the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process, they helped improve mutual
understanding, he said.