AZERBAIJANI INTELLIGENTSIA READY TO NEGOTIATE WITH ARMENIANS
TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
Nov 30 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. S.Ilhamgizi / Azerbaijani intelligentsia
demonstrated readiness to negotiate with Armenians by visiting Armenia
and the occupied Nagorno Karabakh, Kamal Abdulla, the Rector of the
Baku Slavonic University, said to Trend agency.
The Armenian Prime Minister Serj Sarkisan stated that Armenia apart
the Azerbaijani Government is ready for negotiations between the
countries. According to Sarkisan, only the Azerbaijani Ambassador to
Russia Polad Bulbuloglu has courage in the negotiation process.
Abdulla said that Sarkisan made such statements in order to confuse
world community again.
"Azerbaijani intelligentsia would not visit Armenia if the Azerbaijani
Government escapes peace negotiations. As a representatives of
Azerbaijan, we intelligentsia, visited Khankandi and Yerevan, and
held a range of negotiations with Armenian officials. Sarkisan making
such statements attempts to form negative opinion about Azerbaijan,"
Abdulla said.
Azerbaijani and Armenian intelligentsias should continue negotiations.
The chairman of the Azerbaijani Intelligentsia Movement Eldaniz Guliyev
said to Trend agency that the negotiations between Azerbaijani and
Armenian intelligentsias should be continued.
"If the Azerbaijani and Armenian governments cannot settle the
Nagorno-Karabakh then population should associate," Guliyev said.