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    OFFICIAL BAKU CALLS ON OSCE MINSK GROUP'S CO-CHAIRS TO INFER FROM AZERBAIJAN'S RECENT MESSAGE

    Trend News Agency
    April 1 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 1 April /TrendNews corr K. Ramazanova/ The official
    Baku calls on the co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group engaged in settling
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to infer from the Azerbaijan's
    recent message.

    "The co-chairs monopolize the negotiations and direct them into that
    course which is good for them," the Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister
    Araz Azimov said to the journalists on 1 April.

    The official Baku sent an inquiry to the OSCE to get informed about
    the replacement of the co-chairing countries or the co-chairs of the
    OSCE Minsk Group. The official Baku has taken such rough measures
    because on 14 March the Minsk Group's co-chairing countries did not
    support the Resolution on the Situation in the Occupied Territory of
    Azerbaijan at the UN General Assembly's meeting.

    Azimov said that Azerbaijan did not state its intention to replace
    the co-chairs. "The letter which Azerbaijan sent to the Minsk Group
    was a tactical step. The strategic step is that Azerbaijan observes
    not full use of the Minsk Group's potential," Azimov said.

    Azimov said that Azerbaijan is ready to continue the negotiations
    to remove the gap in the main principles of settling the conflict,
    which were presented by the Minsk Group to Azerbaijan and Armenia in
    autumn 2007. "The territorial integrity is non-alternative issue for
    negotiations and Azerbaijan is ready to continue the negotiations
    only if the issue is provided," he said.

    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
    1988 due to the Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since
    1992, the Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven neighboring
    districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire
    agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs
    of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently
    holding peaceful negotiations.
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