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    Azeri foreign minister hails meeting with Armenian counterpart as "step
    forward"

    Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
    31 Aug 04

    [Presenter] The fourth meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign
    ministers in Prague to settle the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict is a step
    forward. Such is an assessment of [Azerbaijani] Foreign Minister Elmar
    Mammadyarov, who has returned from the talks. But the minister also
    said that a number of issues remained thorny topics of discussions. At
    the negotiations with the Armenian opposite number [Vardan Oskanyan],
    Elmar Mammadyarov also voiced some of his remarks that hinder the
    peace process.

    [Correspondent over video of Prague, Mammadyarov and Oskanyan] The
    latest meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers
    was a step forward towards a resolution of the Karabakh problem,
    Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has told ATV, while summing up
    the results of the meeting.

    [Elmar Mammadyarov at Baku's Bina airport] I would say for the first
    time that there is progress, we have made a step forward. However,
    the matter is difficult.

    [Correspondent] We should say that like with previous meetings,
    the Prague meeting lacked a specific agenda. The ministers exchanged
    opinions on various aspects of the settlement.

    [Mammadyarov] We have had a fourth meeting with the Armenian foreign
    minister. We had detailed discussions. Now, we should analyse their
    outcome to find out how we shall use them.

    [Correspondent] As for the foreign ministers' next meeting, Mammadyarov
    said that this would be determined in the near future.

    [Mammadyarov] As for the meetings, we shall probably decide this week,
    including our contacts with the cochairs [of the OSCE Minsk Group].

    [Correspondent] Yet, the two ministers are about to report to the
    presidents on the outcome of their meeting. The prospects for peace
    talks will become clearer then.

    [Mammadyarov] First, we should report to our presidents. I shall
    report to my president and Vardan Oskanyan to his president. After
    this, we shall contact the cochairs to find out our further steps.

    [Correspondent] Asked whether he has delivered official Baku's protest
    to Vardan Oskanyan on the military exercises with the participation
    of Armenian troops in Nagornyy Karabakh, Mammadyarov said:

    [Mammadyarov] Certainly, I did. Clearly, this was part of the
    negotiations. We should say that together with the cochairs, personal
    representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk also
    attended the Prague meeting.

    [Presenter] A short while ago, Mammadyarov told reporters that a next
    meeting of the Azerbaijani, Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers
    had been discussed at the Prague meeting. The minister said that this
    issue would also be discussed at tomorrow's meeting with the Turkish
    ambassador to Azerbaijan. The tripartite meeting is expected to take
    place in New York.
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