AZERBAIJANI FM: UPDATED VERSION OF MADRID PRINCIPLES GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS LARGE AGREEMENT
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March 12 2010
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said an updated
version of the Madrid principles makes it possible to discuss a
large agreement.
"For me personally, Armenia should accept the updated version of
the Madrid principles as well. But they say they cannot as there are
some options they do not agree with. Now negotiations are underway
on these options."
Mammadyarov said several international organizations and countries
emphasized that it was high time that the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
was solved.
"Both heads of the OSCE Minsk Group`s co-chairing countries, Kazakhstan
which chairs the OSCE as well as Spain which heads the European Union
have declared the year 2010 will be crucial from the point of view
of finding a solution to the conflict. Similar statements were made
by President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Joao Soares and the
assembly`s special representative on the dispute Goran Lennmarker. And
it means the whole international community awaits progress in the
problem, and hopes the occupied lands will be liberated and refugees
will return to their homelands," said the Azeri FM.