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    "AZERBAIJAN IS NOT INTERESTED IN KARABAKH ISSUE SETTLEMENT"

    Azg
    2 Nov 04

    Stepanakert Responded to Baku's Initiative

    Masis Mayilian, deputy foreign minister of Nagorno Karabakh Republic,
    said in an interview to Azg Daily that by the initiative of including
    "Azerbaijan's conquered territories' present status" in the UN agenda
    the Azeri side proved once more Baku's unavailability to discuss with
    Stepanakert the whole package of issues regarding Karabakh conflict.

    The UN General Assembly's General Commission ordered to include
    theissue of "Azerbaijan's conquered territories' present status" in
    theagenda of the 59th sitting. Azerbaijan attempts to shift
    international community's attention from the key issue of the Karabakh
    conflict - the issue of Nagorno Karabakh status. Official Yerevan
    stated that all the territories administratively belonging to the
    Republic of Azerbaijan are not being inhabited (see Azg Daily's Oct.
    30 issue).

    "This step of Baku does not support the creation of the necessary good
    atmosphere but is a propaganda maneuver. Otherwise, Azerbaijan would
    respond to Stepanakert's offer of beginning whole-format talks which
    are the most efficient means", Mayilian said.

    He also noted that by posing the issue of territories Azerbaijan tries
    to divert the attention of interested institutions from its own policy
    of inhabiting 15 per cent of Karabakh's and the whole territory of
    Shahumian in 1992.

    "Baku's destructive policy makes it impossible to solve the problems
    of the refugees and resettlers and may render all the efforts of
    international mediators to nil", Mayilian said.

    Artur Mosian, president of the Commission of Defense, Security and Law
    Enforcement of the National Assembly of Nagorno Karabakh, informed Azg
    Daily that Karabakh has no conquered territory. "Karabakh has only
    liberated territories which are zones of safety. I think that Armenia
    has neither conquered nor liberated territories in Karabakh. Let the
    Azeri's calm down", Mosian said.

    Yet, he noted that "such a formula cannot be pleasant". Mosian thinks
    that Stepanakert is not involved in the negotiation processes today,
    therefore Karabakh is not obliged to comment on the talk
    discussions. "We are not involved in any talk process. If they don't
    ask what we think it's their problem", he said.

    Vahram Atanesian, president of the National Assembly Commission on
    Foreign Affairs, thinks that picking out separate aspects from the
    Karabakh issue and highlighting them on the UN agenda will not
    contribute to any of the 3 conflicting sides as "the talks within the
    OSCE Minsk group frameworks seemto mark progress".

    He does not agree with the idea that Karabakh is left out from the
    negotiations. "Minsk group is visiting Karabakh and discusses issues
    with high-ranking officials of the Republic, that's why I think
    Stepanakert clearly expresses it' s position and that is I think a
    negotiation stance", Atanesian said.

    He agrees with Armenian Foreign Ministry's opinion that no state
    policy is carried out for inhabiting the territories. "I don't exclude
    the possibility that there may be several Armenian families who found
    refuge in these territories (controlled by Armenian forces) as they
    have no other place to live and the Karabakh authorities cannot
    provide them with the necessaries", Atanesian said.


    Recently OSCE Minsk group co-chair Yuri Merzliakov said in an
    interview to the Regnum new agency that Nagorno Karabakh's
    participation in the talks is compulsory. Baku's Ekho newspaper cites
    the words of Bruce Jackson,president of the US Committee to Expand
    NATO: "I don't understand why Nagorno Karabakh does not take part in
    the settlement talks".

    Ali Hasanov, of President Aliyev's think tank, said to Ekho that
    Karabakh is not a side in the conflict but Armenia is carrying that
    role out. Only in case Armenia steps aside admitting that the conflict
    is Azerbaijan's inner problem between Baku and Stepanakert and
    withdraws its forces and ceases contributing to the separatists,
    repeals Armenian parliament's decision of 1989,only then it will be
    possible to begin talks between Baku and Stepanakert.

    By Tatoul Hakobian
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