YEREVAN DRAGGING OUT KARABAKH SETTLEMENT PROCESS – AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL

Interfax
Aug 25 2009
Russia

It is necessary to stop dragging out the Karabakh settlement process
and to ensure regional peace, head of the Azerbaijani presidential
administration’s external relations department Novruz Mamedov told
the Azerbaijani channel ANS.

"The constant dragging out of the Karabakh settlement by Yerevan’s
unconstructive position must end," he said.

Although the Madrid principles of the Karabakh settlement have not
been fully coordinated, the negotiations seek the quickest solution,
he said.

The international peacekeeping force, which may be deployed in the
conflict zone once the political settlement is complete, should not
be made up of servicemen from neighbor countries, Mamedov said.

He said that such peacekeeping missions were the area of the UN and
other organizations.