BAKU: Azerbaijan Not To Submit More Karabakh Proposals

AZERBAIJAN NOT TO SUBMIT MORE KARABAKH PROPOSALS

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March 3 2010
Azerbaijan

Elmar Mammadyarov Baku does not intend to submit proposals on the
updated Madrid principles for a Karabakh settlement, Foreign Minister
Elmar Mammadyarov has said.

Azerbaijan has been working on the Madrid principles for two years
and submitted the appropriate document to the OSCE mediators in
Greece in December, Mammadyarov told a joint press conference in Baku
yesterday evening, following talks with Spain’s foreign minister,
Miguel Angel Moratinos.

At a trilateral meeting of the Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian
presidents in Sochi on 25 January, it was agreed that Baku and Yerevan
should submit proposals on contentious points in the Madrid principles
within two weeks. The Armenian foreign minister said yesterday that
Yerevan had submitted its proposals.

"The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs proposed the Madrid principles for
the first time in 2007," Mammadyarov said. "We have been working on
these documents for two years and numerous meetings at the level of
the presidents and foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia have
been held in that period with numerous visits by the Minsk Group
co-chairs to our region."

He said that all questions had been settled on the sidelines of the
OSCE meeting in Athens in December 2009.

"The Madrid principles were presented for the first time in 2007,
while their updated version was submitted in 2009. We do not consider
it necessary to make new proposals. This need will depend on the
results of my meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to be held
in Paris on 5 March," Mammadyarov said, appearing to leave open the
possibility of a submission of some kind from Baku.

Mammadyarov is to begin an official visit to Paris on 4 March,
where he will probably meet the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group,
mediating a settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, on the 5th,
he told the press conference.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS