Azeri minister, OSCE mediators discuss “specific” Karabakh plan in Frankfurt
– TV
Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
28 Apr 05
[Presenter] Details of a peace plan are already being discussed in
talks on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
[Azerbaijani] Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who met the
co-chairmen of the [OSCE] Minsk Group in Frankfurt [on 27 April], has
said that precisely for this reason the mediators are holding separate
talks with the sides.
[Correspondent] The meeting between Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in Frankfurt discussed details of
a specific plan on the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh
problem. Although Elmar Mammadyarov did not reveal details of the
peace plan, he said that Azerbaijan had a firm position – the occupied
territories must be vacated and the displaced people and refugees must
return to their lands.
Mr Mammadyarov said that the peace plan being discussed was a very
sensitive issue and the disclosure of its details might further
aggravate the situation in the region. This is a very sensitive issue,
and I am not ready now to disclose any point because there are many of
those who are not interested in peace coming to the South Caucasus
region, he said.
The minister also said he had not discussed with the co-chairmen why
his Armenian counterpart Vardan Oskanyan did not join the discussions
in Frankfurt. He quoted the co-chairmen as saying that they would also
hold a tete-a-tete meeting with Vardan Oskanyan in a European country
soon. Mr Mammadyarov said that the date and venue of the next meeting
between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents was also discussed
during the talks. Mr Mammadyarov said that this meeting might be held
on the sidelines of a summit of the Council of Europe member states in
Warsaw on 16-17 May.
The personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, Andrzej
Kasprzyk, also attended the Frankfurt meeting. Elmar Mammadyarov said
that they and Mr Kasprzyk had discussed efforts to release three
captured Azerbaijani soldiers and constant cease-fire violations on
the front line.
[Video showed library pictures of officials]