Azeri minister sees Karabakh talks in Paris as “complicated”
Azadliq, Baku
20 Jun 05
Excerpt from unattributed report by Azerbaijani newspaper Azadliq on
20 June headlined “Mammadyarov-Oskanyan talks have been complicated”
The Paris talks [on 17 June] between the Azerbaijani and Armenian
foreign ministers on the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict
were complicated, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told
the head of the Foreign Ministry’s information department, Tahir
Tagizada, over the phone after the talks.
[Passage omitted: reported details]
Mammadyarov said that the talks were continuing and he would meet the
[OSCE Minsk Group] co-chairmen again.
The minister went on to say that their meeting had focused on seven or
nine elements which involved the liberation of occupied territories,
the return of refugees to their lands, the future status of Nagornyy
Karabakh, the deployment of peacekeeping forces [in Karabakh] and
others.