BAKU: Azeri official on new Garabagh proposals

Azeri official on new Garabagh proposals

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
April 20 2006

Baku, April 19, AssA-Irada — Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz
Azimov has said new proposals and concessions are essential in the
settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict.

“But the outcome should not be aside from the basic framework [for
conflict resolution],” he said, when commenting on a statement by the
Russian co-chairman of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov
that the intermediaries’ new suggestions “concern some principles of
the conflict settlement”.

Azimov said the internationally-accepted autonomy models are currently
being studied.

“We may hear some statements concerning new proposals and concessions,
but whether or not this will yield specific results will be clear in
further meetings. The point is that there are specific frames, and
constructive and swift efforts should be made to settle the conflict
within them.”

The official said the existing international models differ and
various status options of self-administration are applied in Europe
and other regions of the world. “However, these alternatives are
used considering the location of territories and with respect for
the territorial integrity [of countries]. We have stated this on many
occasions. If we are talking about advancing within this framework,
Azerbaijan is ready for this,” Azimov added.*

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS