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    AZERI FM SAYS ARMENIA READY TO GIVE BACK "OCCUPIED" REGIONS

    Armenpress

    BAKU, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar
    Mamedyarov told ATV on Monday that Armenia was ready to give up seven
    regions of Azerbaijan it occupied during an early 1990s war for the
    Nagorno Karabagh.

    "They have agreed to give up all the regions, but they are thinking
    when" they should do this, Mamedyarov told the network in Warsaw, where
    the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenian held talks Sunday. However,
    an Armenian foreign ministry official in Yerevan was quoted by some
    Armenian news media as saying that he had no information about such
    a agreement.

    Referring to Mamedyarov's statement, foreign ministry spokesman Hamlet
    Gasparian said, "we have no such information. I am highly doubtful
    that it corresponds to the real situation."

    Meantime Turkish media reported that deputy Azeri foreign minister
    Araz Azimov who was in Turkey ahead of the Warsaw Council of Europe
    summit, informed Turkish officials about the pace of peaceful talks
    with Armenia, which, according to Turkish media, came as a big surprise
    to Ankara.

    Turkish media quoted Azimov as saying that Armenia agreed to give
    back five of the seven Armenian-controlled regions, making the
    return contingent on lifting Azerbaijan's blockade and normalization
    of Yerevan-Baku relations. According to Turkish media, Azerbaijan
    rejected Armenian proposals, insisting that all seven regions must
    be handed back. This position was reportedly endorsed by Ankara.
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