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    Associated Press Worldstream
    January 4, 2005 Tuesday 10:02 AM Eastern Time

    Azerbaijani president says negotiations over disputed
    Nagorno-Karabakh enclave are improving

    BAKU, Azerbaijan

    President Ilham Aliyev said efforts to resolve the long-running
    conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of
    Nagorno-Karabakh are entering a new, positive, phase, the
    presidential press service reported Tuesday.

    Aliyev told a meeting of the country's Security Council on Monday
    that the internationally brokered talks over the enclave's status had
    entered a "new stage."

    "Of course, I don't want to say that this process already has found a
    resolution. Negotiations are ongoing, and we are using all means to
    ensure these negotiations develop positively for us," Aliyev said,
    according to his press service. "We have succeeded in attracting the
    wider international community, discussions of this question in
    different organization even though the Armenians strongly object to
    this."

    Ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia drove Azerbaijani troops out
    of Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s in a six-year war that killed some
    30,000 people and sent 1 million fleeing from their homes.

    A cease-fire was reached in 1994, but the enclave's final status has
    not been determined. The unresolved dispute damages both nations'
    economies and the threat of renewed war continues to hang over the
    region.

    The two countries have been involved in an international effort to
    reach a settlement, sponsored by the Organization for Security and
    Cooperation in Europe and led by Russia, France and the United
    States.

    Azerbaijan refuses to negotiate with Nagorno-Karabakh officials.
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