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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.
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.