AZERBAIJAN APPROVES IN GENERAL UPDATED KARABAKH SETTLEMENT PRINCIPLES

Interfax
Feb 15 2010
Russia

Baku mostly approves of the updated Karabakh settlement principles,
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told a Monday press briefing
following negotiations with OSCE Chairman- in-Office, Kazakh State
Secretary – Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.

"The updated settlement principles, which the OSCE Minsk Group co-
chairmen put forward in Athens, are acceptable," he said.

"We generally acknowledge these principles but there are certain
aspects that require further coordination," Mamedyarov said.

He said he had recently spoken to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov who said that Armenia had not commented on the updated
principles yet.

The status quo in the Karabakh settlement process is impermissible,
Mamedyarov said. "The notions of ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘occupied
lands’ are not acceptable if we develop a normal relationship within
the OSCE framework," he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress