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    Azeri official rules out territorial compromise with Armenia

    MPA news agency, Baku
    2 Feb 05

    BAKU

    Certain changes are observed in the process of settling the
    Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister
    Araz Azimov has told MPA.

    He said Azerbaijan continues to adhere to a negotiated settlement to
    the problem, to the restoration of contacts between Karabakh's
    Armenian and Azerbaijani communities and between Baku and
    Yerevan. However, territorial compromises are ruled out. In other
    words, it is impossible to resolve the problem by these kinds of
    concessions.

    As a member of European organizations, Azerbaijan has acquired some
    European experience, Azimov said. At issue is not the transfer of
    lands from one state to another, but their integration. Those
    observing the situation in the region have to pay attention to two
    factors. Several suggestions of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili
    towards resolving the conflict with South Ossetia were voiced at a
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] session and
    some of them could facilitate solution to the Karabakh problem. The
    latest PACE resolution pertaining to the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict,
    Azimov said, attests to the fact that this European organization is
    moving in the right direction.

    "A solution to the Karabakh conflict represents special importance for
    the region's integration into Europe," the Azerbaijani diplomat said.
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