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    Azeri official plays down Armenian leader's Karabakh remarks

    Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
    12 Mar 04

    [Presenter] Baku believes that Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's
    statement that Nagornyy Karabakh can never become part of Azerbaijan
    again is intended to cast a shadow on our country.

    Saying this, the head of the Presidential Executive Staff, Ramiz
    Mehdiyev, added that Kocharyan's mythical remarks that if Nagornyy
    Karabakh is returned to Azerbaijan, hundreds of thousands of axes
    would be hanging over the Karabakh Armenians show that he is not
    faring well in his country.

    Mehdiyev also stressed that while the Armenian president is saying
    that there is no political crisis in Armenia, his attempts to foment
    tensions around the Nagornyy Karabakh issue testify to the opposite
    and show that there is a deep political crisis in Armenia.

    The head of the Presidential Executive Staff also pointed to the fact
    that 30,000 Armenians still live in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, he said,
    is demonstrating to the whole world that the Armenians can live in
    peace among the Azerbaijanis and there is no threat to their
    lives. This is the result of the security guarantees that we have been
    providing for the Armenians for years.

    At the same time, Mehdiyev said that Armenia cannot conceal its
    aggressive anti-Azerbaijani policy, as a result of which there are no
    Azerbaijanis on Armenian territory. He added that the Azerbaijanis
    were driven out of Armenia even more cruelly than with axes. Today
    Armenian snipers are targeting peaceful Azerbaijanis. But they can
    only do that in borderline areas.
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