MAMMADYAROV: “THE SIDES COME TO CLOSURE ON THE DISCUSSED ISSUES”
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 5 2006
“Not any serious advancement has achieved in the meeting of Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan”,
foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov has told journalists.
According to him, discussions held in the level of co-chairs and
presidents level in the meeting which lasted for 5 hours. “I can
say that there is any advancement. Presidents make precise their
positions. The two sides’ position should be appropriate to each
other. Though the meeting in the level of Presidents completed,
but co-chairs stayed in Bucharest. Today or tomorrow if they adopt
a decision on holding meeting in the level of foreign ministers,
we can hold one more meeting.” According to the minister all the
issues should be thoroughly discussed. “We have to continue talks on
the issues that we do not agree on the points. We have not reached
an agreement on some issues, but talks should be continued. I hope
that we shall come to an agreement in the end of the talks; the sides
come to closure on the discussed issues. That is why we think that
we have chance to continue Prague talks. You know that a conflict is
of sensitive matter. Therefore it is impossible to solve it difficult.
Now we work on this problem and try to solve it.” As concerns
holding of the meeting, Elmar Mammadyarov stated each meeting to be
important. He said that the arguments forwarded by Armenians are not
based on international law: “If we really want to place permanent
peacekeepers to the region then decisions to be adopted should be
to international law. This is of importance for the future. After
10 or even 50 years later, no one can say that this decision is
against law. That is why we think that any agreement should be within
international law norms. Occupied territories, 1 million refugees and
displaced people are of Azerbaijan. Armenia has implemented ethnic
cleansing. All these are facts. On the other hand Armenia wants
integration to Euroatlantic area. There is diversity between word
and deed of Armenia, regularly international community understands
it”.