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Azeri foreign minister says breakaway Karabakh can join talks
ANS TV, Baku
2 Apr 05
[Presenter] The OSCE chairman-in-office, Dimitrij Rupel, visited
Azerbaijan today. Relations between the OSCE and Baku, the situation
in the region and the OSCE's role in the Karabakh settlement topped
the agenda of Rupel's meetings with Azerbaijani officials.
[Passage omitted: reported details]
[Correspondent] Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov did not rule out
Nagornyy Karabakh's involvement in the peace process, adding that
official Baku should first conduct talks with Armenia and wait for the
outcome of the talks.
[Mammadyarov, speaking to reporters] Sooner or later, the Armenian
community of Nagornyy Karabakh should join the talks because we cannot
take any step without them. However, we think that we should continue
the talks with Yerevan first and achieve some results. Then all
experts, including those from the OSCE and Karabakh, should come
together and discuss the issues.
[Correspondent] The OSCE chairman-in-office has also met the head of
Nagornyy Karabakh's Azerbaijani community, Nizami Bahmanov, at the
Foreign Ministry. Mr Bahmanov said that the interested sides of
Nagornyy Karabakh, that is to say, both communities of Karabakh cannot
join the peace process now. The talks could have yielded positive
results within this format as well, if Armenia would have given up its
unconstructive position.
[Bahmanov, speaking to reporters] The current position of Armenia, its
refusal to make compromises and hold a constructive dialogue will
inevitably lead to war.
[Passage omitted: Rupel also met Parliament Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov]
ANS TV, Baku
2 Apr 05
[Presenter] The OSCE chairman-in-office, Dimitrij Rupel, visited
Azerbaijan today. Relations between the OSCE and Baku, the situation
in the region and the OSCE's role in the Karabakh settlement topped
the agenda of Rupel's meetings with Azerbaijani officials.
[Passage omitted: reported details]
[Correspondent] Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov did not rule out
Nagornyy Karabakh's involvement in the peace process, adding that
official Baku should first conduct talks with Armenia and wait for the
outcome of the talks.
[Mammadyarov, speaking to reporters] Sooner or later, the Armenian
community of Nagornyy Karabakh should join the talks because we cannot
take any step without them. However, we think that we should continue
the talks with Yerevan first and achieve some results. Then all
experts, including those from the OSCE and Karabakh, should come
together and discuss the issues.
[Correspondent] The OSCE chairman-in-office has also met the head of
Nagornyy Karabakh's Azerbaijani community, Nizami Bahmanov, at the
Foreign Ministry. Mr Bahmanov said that the interested sides of
Nagornyy Karabakh, that is to say, both communities of Karabakh cannot
join the peace process now. The talks could have yielded positive
results within this format as well, if Armenia would have given up its
unconstructive position.
[Bahmanov, speaking to reporters] The current position of Armenia, its
refusal to make compromises and hold a constructive dialogue will
inevitably lead to war.
[Passage omitted: Rupel also met Parliament Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov]