Azeri community leader, OSCE discuss “corridor” with Armenia
ANS TV, Baku
11 Jul 05
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen have paid another visit to Baku. They
first met the head of Nagornyy Karabakh’s Azerbaijani community,
Nizami Bahmanov, and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
later. Bahmanov said the meeting was constructive.
[Bahmanov, speaking to microphone, outside the Azerbaijani Foreign
Ministry] We had an 80-minute-long meeting. We discussed the main
issue – that is the Agdam-Xankandi [Stepanakert]-Susa-Lacin-Gorus-
Sahbuz road. Some questions arose there .They asked us about a
corridor. They wanted us to explain what the corridor meant.
We talked about guarding of the road by OSCE peacekeepers and them
controlling the road. We said that the road would most probably be
controlled for some time by the peacekeepers according to a certain
schedule. We discussed the return of people to Lacin and Susa. They
did not ignore our talks. They said that the Armenian troops should
first withdraw from Azerbaijan’s occupied districts in a
stage-by-stage manner and then people could return to their lands
according to the same principle.