AZERI STATEMENTS HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECT ON KARABAKH TALKS – YEREVAN

Interfax
Nov 24 2009
Russia

Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian has negative feelings
about the possibility of a regional war declared by Azeri President
Ilham Aliyev.

"Although these statements are targeted at the domestic audience,
they have a negative effect on the negotiations and regional peace
efforts," he said.

"Such statements display the Azeri destructive position on Armenia,
Karabakh and regional processes at large," Nalbandian said.

Aliyev said two days before his Munich meeting with Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan that a war might resume in the region if the meeting
failed to bring results.

"If the meeting fails, the hopes we pin on negotiations will be
crushed, and we will have no other way left. We must be prepared
[to free the occupied Azerbaijani lands with military force]," he
said while visiting the Goranboy district of Azerbaijan.

Yerevan took the statement as a challenge to Armenia, Karabakh and
the world at large.

Meanwhile, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen lauded the sixth round
of the Aliyev-Sargsyan negotiations held in Munich on Sunday.