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    IVANOV: "I DO NOT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PEACEKEEPERS APPEARING IN NK CONFLICT ZONE"

    Today, Azerbaijan
    May 31 2006

    A long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno
    Karabakh region should be resolved by the two countries themselves
    and not by third parties, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday.

    Speaking at a news conference in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, Sergei
    Ivanov said: "Any settlement scheme imposed from the outside could
    in my opinion be not only counterproductive, but also very dangerous."

    He said international mediators should not try to impose a solution
    on Armenia and Azerbaijan, but should facilitate the implementation
    of any agreement the sides may reach over Karabakh bilaterally,
    RIA Novosti informs.

    Ivanov also said peacekeepers could be deployed in the zone of the
    conflict, which claimed 30,000 lives on both sides between 1988 and
    1994 after the Azerbaijani region with a largely Armenian population
    proclaimed independence from Azerbaijan in a bid to join Armenia.

    "I do not rule out the possibility of peacekeepers appearing in
    the Karabakh conflict zone in the foreseeable future to enforce all
    political agreements that will be reached sooner or later," he said.

    URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/26732.html
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