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    Azeri minister, OSCE mediators discuss "specific" Karabakh plan in Frankfurt
    - TV

    Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
    28 Apr 05

    [Presenter] Details of a peace plan are already being discussed in
    talks on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
    [Azerbaijani] Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who met the
    co-chairmen of the [OSCE] Minsk Group in Frankfurt [on 27 April], has
    said that precisely for this reason the mediators are holding separate
    talks with the sides.

    [Correspondent] The meeting between Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
    and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in Frankfurt discussed details of
    a specific plan on the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh
    problem. Although Elmar Mammadyarov did not reveal details of the
    peace plan, he said that Azerbaijan had a firm position - the occupied
    territories must be vacated and the displaced people and refugees must
    return to their lands.

    Mr Mammadyarov said that the peace plan being discussed was a very
    sensitive issue and the disclosure of its details might further
    aggravate the situation in the region. This is a very sensitive issue,
    and I am not ready now to disclose any point because there are many of
    those who are not interested in peace coming to the South Caucasus
    region, he said.

    The minister also said he had not discussed with the co-chairmen why
    his Armenian counterpart Vardan Oskanyan did not join the discussions
    in Frankfurt. He quoted the co-chairmen as saying that they would also
    hold a tete-a-tete meeting with Vardan Oskanyan in a European country
    soon. Mr Mammadyarov said that the date and venue of the next meeting
    between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents was also discussed
    during the talks. Mr Mammadyarov said that this meeting might be held
    on the sidelines of a summit of the Council of Europe member states in
    Warsaw on 16-17 May.

    The personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, Andrzej
    Kasprzyk, also attended the Frankfurt meeting. Elmar Mammadyarov said
    that they and Mr Kasprzyk had discussed efforts to release three
    captured Azerbaijani soldiers and constant cease-fire violations on
    the front line.

    [Video showed library pictures of officials]
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