IMITATION OF NEGOTIATIONS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT PEACE SETTLEMENT NOT ADVANTAGEOUS TO ANYONE: AZERBAIJAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER
Trend News Agency
Aug 1 2008
Azerbaijan
Russia, Moscow, 1 August /Trend News corr. R.Agayev/ Azerbaijan’s
Foreign Minister believes imitation of negotiation process
on peace settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is advantageous neither to the sides of negotiations, nor
intermediaries. "Imitation of negotiations does not suit anybody –
neither to participants, nor to intermediaries of the settlement,"
Azerbaijan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov said at a
briefing in Moscow on 1 August, commenting on the consultations with
his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandyan.
According to Mammadyarov, OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chairs, engaged in
settlement, try to move as soon as possible the negotiation process
from the dead point.
Should the negotiations be imitation, the sides would not seek an
opportunity to meet neither on the level of presidents nor at the
level of foreign ministers, said Nalbandyan. "There is a need in the
meetings. Armenia and Azerbaijan must solve the problem. I think the
problems are solvable, should both sides show the political will,"
he said.