Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am, Armenia
Aug 29 2009

Aliyev is struck into same song

13:14 / 08/29/2009Nagorno-Karabakh should have a status, but Baku
would never accept any if it is not within Azerbaijani territorial
integrity, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated at iftar dinner
Aug. 28, APA agency reports.

`Our efforts are giving first results in the negotiation process. Our
unchangeable position is that this problem could be solved only within
the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. The people could live in
Nagorno-Karabakh within the status of autonomy and within the united
Azerbaijani state. These principles are basic today,’ President said,
underlining that any agreement can be reached based of these
principles only.

According to him, Karabakh conflict settlement is possible solely with
step-by-step approach: `We told all countries that the problem could
be solved phase-by-phase. All occupied regions will be liberated
successively and our compatriots will return to those regions. The
infrastructure will be restored there and after that the legal status
of Nagorno-Karabakh will be determined in the next phase,’ he
concluded.