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    U.S. AMBASSADOR: TIME HAS COME TO ENDORSE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION

    Trend News Agency
    Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
    May 31, 2011 Tuesday
    Baku, Azerbaijan

    May 31--LANKARAN, Azerbaijan -- U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew
    Bryza believes the time has come to agree on the basic principles of
    the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution.

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    the basic principles of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution,"
    Bryza told journalists in Lankaran today.

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    called on the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to demonstrate the
    political will and to finalize the basic principles [the settlement
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh] during the upcoming Armenian-Azerbaijani
    summit in June.

    "The further delay will put the desire of the parties to reach an
    agreement under question," a joint statement of the presidents of
    the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries said.

    The Azerbaijani government thinks that Armenia must draw conclusions
    from the last statement of the Russian, U.S and French Presidents
    over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    "Of course, we welcome the statement made by the presidents in
    Deauville, France during the G8 meeting," the head of the foreign
    relations department at the Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov
    told Trend last week. "The presidents' concern over the unresolved
    conflict is clear and pleases. They stress the necessity of rapid
    settlement of the conflict through negotiations. We also attach great
    importance to this."

    Bryza said the basic principles could be the basis of an agreement
    even if the final peace agreement lacks.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group -- Russia, France, and the U.S. --
    are currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

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