SPOKESMAN FOR AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTRY: "IF ARMENIA ACCEPTS MADRID PROPOSALS, LET IT ANNOUNCE THIS OPENLY"

APA
March 17 2010
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova – APA. "The same document has been offered
to both sides. There can’t be any incorrectness", said Spokesman for
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elkhan Polukhov, APA reports.

Polukhov said it while taking stance on Armenian foreign
minister Edward Nalbandian’s words that "Azerbaijani side gives
wrong information to public about the meaning and content of the
negotiations" at a meeting with mediators in Paris: " Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov openly declared that the proposed written document had
been accepted by Azerbaijani side with some exceptions – the diplomat
added – and if Armenia accepts the Madrid proposals, let it announces
this openly".

Taking stance on Nalbandian’s words that "If Nagorno Karabakh regime
does not join the negotiations, the resolution of the conflict is
impossible", Polukhov said that Azerbaijan had repeatedly stated
that the participation of both communities of Nagorno Karabakh in the
negotiation process at a certain stage is not excluded: "But it will
be possible after the preliminary steps are taken".