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    AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
    April 8 2010

    Garabagh status `key' in conflict settlement - Armenian FM


    08-04-2010 05:35:12
    Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian has claimed that the
    status of Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh, an Azeri region under Armenian
    occupation, remains a key issue in settling the Garabagh conflict.
    `Without a solution of the main issue regarding the Garabagh problem `
    Upper Garabagh's status ` it is difficult to talk about resolving
    other problems,' Nalbandian maintained at a press conference
    Wednesday. `Recognizing and enforcing the right of Upper Garabagh to
    self-determination remains the main issue of a conflict settlement.'
    Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the
    signing of a cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy Upper
    Garabagh and seven other Azerbaijani districts in defiance of
    international law. Baku says the status of Upper Garabagh could be
    determined strictly within Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and only
    after Armenian forces have pulled out of the occupied land and
    Azerbaijani refugees displaced during the hostilities have returned
    home.
    Nalbandian added that the Madrid principles, a peace outline proposed
    by the mediators in November 2007, are the basis for the ongoing peace
    talks.
    `The [mediating] OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs continue offering working
    options for the conflict resolution, and this will be ongoing until a
    rapprochement in the sides' positions is achieved,' the Armenian
    minister said.*
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