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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    January 1, 2005 Saturday 11:49 AM Eastern Time

    Azeri president calls 2004 turning point in Karabakh settlement

    By Sevindzh Abdullayeva, Viktor Shulman

    BAKU

    President of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliev said in his New Year address to
    the nation on Saturday that 2004 had marked a turning point in the
    settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

    He noted that "progress has been made in the negotiating process, the
    international public has started paying more attention to the problem
    and the OSCE Minsk Group which acts as mediators in conflict
    settlement has increased its activities."

    "I've repeated it many times that Azerbaijan will never make any
    concessions in question of its territorial integrity and is not going
    to discuss this subject," Ilkham Aliev went on to say. He emphasized
    that the talks should be conducted in compliance with international
    law.

    The next year's priority tasks include the further strengthening of
    the country's economic potential, the creation of new jobs and the
    solution of social problems, including the increase of salaries and
    pensions.

    Ilkham Aliev stressed that Azerbaijan would be able to solve many of
    its problems when the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline begins operation
    in 2005 and when the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum
    pipeline is finished.
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