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    Russian minister pledges help in Karabakh settlement

    ITAR-TASS news agency
    18 Aug 04


    Moscow, 18 August, ITAR-TASS correspondents Natalya Lenskaya and Irina
    Chumakova: Russia supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, Russian
    Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today following talks with his
    Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov. The Russian minister said
    that Moscow "is ready to do its utmost to help settle the Nagornyy
    Karabakh conflict both as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and also
    as a nation".

    "Moscow is interested in finding a settlement to the conflict on the
    basis of all the existing agreements. But only the sides themselves
    can resolve the conflict and they can do so only through
    negotiations," the Russian minister said. "We cannot make a decision
    for the sides, if they cannot come to an agreement themselves," Lavrov
    noted.

    He expressed satisfaction with the resumption of talks late last year.

    "We believe that the negotiations will be continued because what the
    Minsk Group has done so far does not cover all the accumulated
    problems," the minister noted.
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