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    Azeri foreign minister says breakaway Karabakh can join talks

    ANS TV, Baku
    2 Apr 05

    [Presenter] The OSCE chairman-in-office, Dimitrij Rupel, visited
    Azerbaijan today. Relations between the OSCE and Baku, the situation
    in the region and the OSCE's role in the Karabakh settlement topped
    the agenda of Rupel's meetings with Azerbaijani officials.

    [Passage omitted: reported details]

    [Correspondent] Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov did not rule out
    Nagornyy Karabakh's involvement in the peace process, adding that
    official Baku should first conduct talks with Armenia and wait for the
    outcome of the talks.

    [Mammadyarov, speaking to reporters] Sooner or later, the Armenian
    community of Nagornyy Karabakh should join the talks because we cannot
    take any step without them. However, we think that we should continue
    the talks with Yerevan first and achieve some results. Then all
    experts, including those from the OSCE and Karabakh, should come
    together and discuss the issues.

    [Correspondent] The OSCE chairman-in-office has also met the head of
    Nagornyy Karabakh's Azerbaijani community, Nizami Bahmanov, at the
    Foreign Ministry. Mr Bahmanov said that the interested sides of
    Nagornyy Karabakh, that is to say, both communities of Karabakh cannot
    join the peace process now. The talks could have yielded positive
    results within this format as well, if Armenia would have given up its
    unconstructive position.

    [Bahmanov, speaking to reporters] The current position of Armenia, its
    refusal to make compromises and hold a constructive dialogue will
    inevitably lead to war.

    [Passage omitted: Rupel also met Parliament Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov]
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