AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS SIDES OF ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SHOULD CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS TO CLARIFY POSITIONS
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 3 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr. E. Husseynov/Elmar Mammadyarov,
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister, has told journalists in Baku today that
the sides of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should
keep their approach to negotiations peaceful, Trend reports referring
to the privately owned TV Channel "ANS" (Azerbaijan News Service).
Speaking of the last round of negotiations between the Foreign
Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan
Oskanyan respectively, held in Geneva in the middle of March, the
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister noted that the OSCE Minsk Co-Chairmen
had proposed "to meet once more to clarify their positions" and this
is presently being considered.
Mr. Mammadyarov said that international mediators proposed to hold
another meeting with the two Foreign Ministers of the conflicting sides
prior to Armenia's parliamentary elections in May 2007. "The Co-Chairs
are likely to see the need to hold one more meeting to continue the
process of peaceful negotiations immediately after Armenia holds its
election campaign," he concluded.
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 3 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr. E. Husseynov/Elmar Mammadyarov,
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister, has told journalists in Baku today that
the sides of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should
keep their approach to negotiations peaceful, Trend reports referring
to the privately owned TV Channel "ANS" (Azerbaijan News Service).
Speaking of the last round of negotiations between the Foreign
Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan
Oskanyan respectively, held in Geneva in the middle of March, the
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister noted that the OSCE Minsk Co-Chairmen
had proposed "to meet once more to clarify their positions" and this
is presently being considered.
Mr. Mammadyarov said that international mediators proposed to hold
another meeting with the two Foreign Ministers of the conflicting sides
prior to Armenia's parliamentary elections in May 2007. "The Co-Chairs
are likely to see the need to hold one more meeting to continue the
process of peaceful negotiations immediately after Armenia holds its
election campaign," he concluded.
