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ITAR-TASS, Russia
March 11, 2011 Friday 4:03 PM EST
Azerbaijan's foreign minister urges to withdraw Armenian troops
YEREVAN March 11
The withdrawal of Armenian troops from Azerbaijan's territory "will
create an utterly different situation in the region," Azerbaijan's
Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov said on Friday.
After it is done "we will be able to speak of the situation's
predictability, of re-opening communications, and restoring
confidence," he said in an interview with Armenia's Mediamax news
agency.
"It is difficult to say about any confidence, when they are,
regrettably, in a state of undeclared war," he said.
Touching on a referendum on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh that is to
be held in line with a draft peace agreement, Mamedyarov said the
referendum should be proceeded by "enormous preparatory work." "It is
necessary to melt the ice in relations, to re-build confidence, to
have people return, to create conditions for their safe co-existence,"
he said.
He described Armenia's statement on its commitment to the
mediator-suggested three principle and six elements of the Karabakh
settlement as "a comforting fact." In his words, "it may open
possibilities for work on a detailed peace agreement, which must be
limited in time in order not to be tempted to indulge in endless talks
and avoiding changes in the actual situation."
"The three principles and six elements are underlying the Madrid
document, which was officially handed over to Armenia and Azerbaijan
in 2009 at a meeting of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers in
Athens," the Azerbaijani foreign minister went on. "Regrettably, we
have wasted more than a year, although on March 5 at a Sochi meeting
between the presidents [of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan] there were
certain positive tendencies towards a detailed peace agreement."
From: A. Papazian
March 11, 2011 Friday 4:03 PM EST
Azerbaijan's foreign minister urges to withdraw Armenian troops
YEREVAN March 11
The withdrawal of Armenian troops from Azerbaijan's territory "will
create an utterly different situation in the region," Azerbaijan's
Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov said on Friday.
After it is done "we will be able to speak of the situation's
predictability, of re-opening communications, and restoring
confidence," he said in an interview with Armenia's Mediamax news
agency.
"It is difficult to say about any confidence, when they are,
regrettably, in a state of undeclared war," he said.
Touching on a referendum on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh that is to
be held in line with a draft peace agreement, Mamedyarov said the
referendum should be proceeded by "enormous preparatory work." "It is
necessary to melt the ice in relations, to re-build confidence, to
have people return, to create conditions for their safe co-existence,"
he said.
He described Armenia's statement on its commitment to the
mediator-suggested three principle and six elements of the Karabakh
settlement as "a comforting fact." In his words, "it may open
possibilities for work on a detailed peace agreement, which must be
limited in time in order not to be tempted to indulge in endless talks
and avoiding changes in the actual situation."
"The three principles and six elements are underlying the Madrid
document, which was officially handed over to Armenia and Azerbaijan
in 2009 at a meeting of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers in
Athens," the Azerbaijani foreign minister went on. "Regrettably, we
have wasted more than a year, although on March 5 at a Sochi meeting
between the presidents [of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan] there were
certain positive tendencies towards a detailed peace agreement."
From: A. Papazian