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    OFFICIAL BAKU AND LOCAL POLITICAL EXPERTS DIFFERENTLY APPROACH MOSCOW TALKS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

    Trend News Agency
    Aug 1 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 1 August / Trend News / I.Alizade / Although official
    Baku expects Armenia's constructive position at the meeting to be
    held between Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
    and his counterpart Edvard Nalbandyan in Moscow on 1 August on
    the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, independent political
    scientists consider this meeting to be fruitless. "The resolution of
    the conflict depends on whether Armenia will take the constructive
    position and observes international principles and standards," Khazar
    Ibrahim, press secretary of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said to
    Trend News on 1 August.

    Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, and Edvard
    Nalbandyan, his counterpart will meet in Moscow on 1 August to discuss
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group,
    including Mathew Bryza (the United States), Yuri Merzlyakov ( Russia)
    and Bernard Fasier ( France) will participate in this meeting as well.

    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
    1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
    lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December
    1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and
    Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. 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, but fruitless
    negotiations.

    According to the Foreign Ministry's official, Azerbaijan expects
    Armenian's constructive position not in words, but in steps, which
    Armenia must take to resolve the conflict.

    However, the Azerbaijani political experts do not expect serious
    results from this meeting.

    According to Asim Mollazade, a political scientist and member of the
    Azerbaijani Parliament's Standing Commission on international and
    inter-parliamentary relations, Armenia does not hold serious talks on
    the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh resolution: " Armenia is imitating
    talks in order to deceive the international community. Therefore,
    Moscow meeting will be fruitless."

    Mollazade said that achievement of no progress in resolution of the
    conflict so far is because of the Armenia's position.

    "These are ordinary talks and they will not lead to serious progress
    in the resolution of the conflict," said Vafa Guluzade, a former
    adviser to the Azerbaijani President on foreign policy issues
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