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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH TO DETERMINE ITS STATUS BY REFERENDUM - BRYZA

    Interfax News Agency
    Aug 1 2008
    Russia

    MOSCOW. Aug 1 (Interfax) - Nagorno-Karabakh residents will decide
    for themselves whether the republic will be under Azeri control or
    be independent, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and co-chairman
    of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza said after the meeting between
    the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers in Moscow.

    Nagorno-Karabakh residents will make their decision at a referendum,
    he said.

    It is important to have bilateral relations based on trust and a
    political will, he said. Bryza warned against blocking the talks.

    The co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, Yuri Merzlyakov, noted an
    active role of the group in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

    "The current process - the meetings between the presidents, foreign
    ministers, means that the Minsk Group acts normally, and the sides to
    the conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan, have a constructive attitude
    toward each other," Merzlyakov said after the meeting between the
    Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers in Moscow.

    Baku has lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent
    districts in the course of a bloody conflict that began in the 1990s
    between the Armenians and Azeris who fought for control over Nagorno-
    Karabakh. As a result, about a million Azeris became refugees and were
    forced to relocate. The UN Security Council slammed the seizure of
    the Azeri territory and demanded a withdrawal of the Armenian forces.

    Currently, talks on this problem are underway. The OSCE Minsk Group
    co-chairmen representing Russia, the U.S. and France are seeking a
    settlement of the conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh.
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