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    Armenian minister in Moscow may discuss withdrawal from Azeri land - daily

    Ekho, Baku
    6 Jul 04


    Text of N. Aliyev and R. Orucov report by Azerbaijani newspaper Ekho
    on 6 July entitled "Yerevan stated its readiness to liberate seven
    districts", and subheaded "Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
    disclosed details of negotiations between foreign ministers of
    Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey"

    Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan flew to Moscow for an
    official visit yesterday. During the visit "special stress" will
    probably be laid on the Karabakh problem, Ekho has reported.

    To all appearances, Oskanyan has really got something to talk about
    with his Russian counterpart. Especially in the light of an article
    published in Turkey's Zaman newspaper. In an article headlined
    "Yerevan gives the first sign of surrender", the newspaper notes that
    Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan, who was in Turkey last week
    for the NATO summit, hinted that Armenian forces could leave all the
    occupied Azerbaijani territories, except Karabakh itself.

    Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul gave this information to Zaman.
    According to him, Oskanyan said: "We can free all the territories
    except Karabakh." Moreover, Azerbaijani [Foreign] Minister Elmar
    Mammadyarov reacted positively, Gul said. "An important step has been
    taken in resolving the Armenian problem," Gul announced.

    The press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry refused to
    comment on this topic yesterday, saying that the Istanbul negotiations
    of the three foreign ministers were confidential.

    In turn, Novruz Mammadov, head of the international relations
    department of the Presidential Executive Staff, considered it
    premature to give an assessment of the Zaman statements.

    "The tripartite negotiations in Istanbul took place behind closed
    doors," Mammadov said and advised us to wait for the return of
    [Foreign Minister] Elmar Mammadyarov, a direct participant in the
    meeting. The latter is currently at NATO headquarters in Brussels,
    where cooperation between the North Atlantic alliance and Azerbaijan,
    within the framework of a fresh individual cooperation programme, is
    being considered.

    MP Samad Seyidov, head of the Azerbaijani delegation in the
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, finds the
    information, published in the Turkish paper, in full conformity with
    the overall situation. "Events around the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    conflict are developing in the right way. That is to say, the
    international community is extraordinarily interested in the
    integration of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia into economic and
    political organizations with a Euro-Atlantic orientation.

    "Analysing the situation in our region, they conclude that the state
    of affairs here is indeed rotten. A country states that it adheres to
    democratic values, but in fact has destroyed all possible and
    impossible values that are in place in the Western and European
    world."

    But the West is ready to accept the region only in conformity with its
    own interests and values.

    "Therefore, concrete examinations started after the emergence of this
    interest. And this is connected with the possibilities of taking
    decisions on our conflict. And the approval of their decisions by our
    sides will be compulsory," Seyidov said.

    The MP believes that that the occupied territories will sooner or
    later be returned to Azerbaijan. "As for Nagornyy Karabakh directly,
    we have frequently said that there can also be no talk about these
    territories. The matter boils down to the fact that the problem must
    be resolved stage-by-stage, first, the liberation of the occupied
    territories around Nagornyy Karabakh, and then the discussion of its
    status. This is completely natural and this is that stage-by-stage
    settlement to the conflict about which we have always spoken."

    Therefore, Samadov said, "the fact that now Turkish, European papers
    and Oskanyan himself, to a certain extent, hint at this option shows
    once again that our position is correct".
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