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    Azerbaijan leader calls for further Karabakh talks
    By Sevinzh Abdullayeva and Viktor Shulman

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    September 2, 2004 Thursday 7:22 AM Eastern Time

    NAKHICHEVAN /Azerbaijan/, September 2 - Azerbaijan President Ilkham
    Aliyev said it was necessary to continue talks over settling the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    Aliyev said so as he spoke with reporters in Nakhichevan, an autonomous
    republic in southwestern Azerbaijan which borders on Armenia.

    "If I have not rejected negotiations yet, it means I'm hoping that
    they will yield a result," he said.

    He emphasized that he had repeatedly stated that he "was not going
    to take part in the talks merely for the sake of imitating them."

    "If I see at some point that the negotiations are ineffective and
    I don't believe in their future, Azerbaijan will be the first to
    withdraw from the negotiating process; but at present, they are
    needed," the president said.

    "Negotiations run around concrete topics," he said expressing the
    hope that they would yield results.
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