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    ArmenPress
    Jan 10 2005

    ARMENIAN FM EXPECTS PROGRESS IN KARABAGH TALKS THIS YEAR

    YEREVAN, JANUARY 10, ARMENPRESS: Armenian foreign affairs minister
    Vartan Oskanian has left today for the Czech capital Prague where he
    will resume January 11 the internationally mediated talks with his
    Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov on ways to resolve the protracted
    Armenian-Azeri dispute on Nagorno Karabagh.
    This will be the fourth separate Oskanian-Mamedyarov meeting in
    Prague in the presence of American, French and Russian diplomats
    co-chairing the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and
    Cooperation in Europe.
    "I believe this year's negotiations will be substantially
    different from what we had in the first stage of the Prague process,
    as on January 11 we shall address specific issues and details, while
    in the first phase we focused on outlining the general format and
    common principles,' Oskanian told the Russian Interfax before
    departing to Prague.
    "The further we go into the details the more complicated the talks
    become... When we get to deal with details, we have to be ready for
    concessions," he was quoted as saying.
    "When talking about flexibility, I mean the negotiation process
    and the sides' readiness for compromises. Each side has to evaluate
    the situation realistically and the other side's potentialities in
    order to issue demands relevant to its potentialities," Oskanian
    said.
    Oskanian also expressed hope that "the already reached agreements
    will help us to mark a turning point in the conflict resolution in
    2005."
    Last week Azerbaijani leaders claimed the January 11 talks will
    discuss the so-called "phased" strategy of conflict resolution that
    has been rejected by the Armenian side. Also Yuri Merzlyakov,
    Russia's chief Karabagh negotiator, was quoted by an Azerbaijani
    newspaper Ekspress last Thursday as saying that the Armenians have
    finally agreed to the stage-by-stage formula." However, officials in
    Yerevan did comment on this, saying only that Merzlyakov's statements
    have been distorted by the Azerbaijani media in the past.
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