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    Peace in Karabakh to help ensure stability in Caucasus - FMs
    By Valery Litvinenko

    ITAR-TASS News Agency , Russia
    February 10, 2005 Thursday 12:23 PM Eastern Time

    ANKARA, February 10 -- Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Azerbaijan -
    Abdullah Gul and Elmar Mamedyarov - agree that the Nagorno-Karabakh
    settlement is one of the main conditions for peace in the Caucasus.

    On Thursday, the foreign ministers held talks on the development of
    bilateral relations, world and regional problems. Much attention was
    riveted to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, Gul said upon completion of
    the talks.

    Economic relations between the two friendly countries are developing
    dynamically in the last years. The volume of economic ties reached
    500 million U.S. dollars, the Turkish minister stressed.

    Gul said he is hopeful that the peace talks on this problem will
    yield success, which will help normalise relations with Armenia.

    Mamedyarov thanked his Turkish counterpart for support that Ankara
    provided to Azerbaijan in order to solve this Nagorno-Karabakh
    problem. The Azerbaijani minister said he believes that the
    Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan gas pipeline will be commissioned in 2006 or 2007.

    According to Anatolia News Agency, the talks focused on Azerbaijan's
    participation in the isolation of the so-called Turkish Republic of
    North Cyprus. Gul said, "In this aspect Baku's policy may become an
    example for other countries." In response the Azerbaijani Foreign
    Ministry stressed that this problem is considered by experts.
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