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    Interfax, Russia
    Feb 12 2011


    Azerbaijan says getting ready to use armed force to get back Nagorno-Karabakh

    BAKU. Feb 12


    Azerbaijan's armed forces are getting ready to restore Azeri
    sovereignty over the country's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of
    Nagorno-Karabakh and adjoining ethnic Azeri districts, which have been
    under Armenian occupation since a 1990s war between Azerbaijan and
    Armenia, the Azeri defense minister said.

    "This is the way all states behave in such situations, and no one can
    blame Azerbaijan," the minister, Col. Gen. Safar Abiyev, said at a
    meeting with the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group, a mediator body set
    up by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

    Abiyev said the Minsk Group's efforts had been fruitless but that
    Azerbaijan was still hoping the OSCE body would be able to broker
    peace. However, he added, a negotiated solution was impossible without
    Armenian forces pulling out of Azerbaijan.

    Earlier, the Minsk Group co-chairmen, Igor Popov of Russia, Robert
    Bradtke of the United States and Bernard Fassier of France, met with
    Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, and the day before had meetings in
    Yerevan, capital of Armenia, with the latter's President Serzh
    Sargsyan, Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan, and Defense Minister
    Seyran Ohanyan.

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    From: A. Papazian
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