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    US PLEDGES FULL SUPPORT TO SPEEDY GARABAGH SOLUTION

    Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
    Dec 21 2006

    The United States is ready to render all kinds of assistance to reach a
    speedy settlement of the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict the country
    faces with Armenia, a State Department official visiting Baku has said.

    "Our principles on the Garabagh conflict are as follows: full support
    to the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the activity of the
    [mediating] OSCE Minsk Group," the US Assistant Secretary of State
    for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron said.

    Addressing students and faculty members at the University of Languages
    on Tuesday, he said: "The USA will provide any support, possibly even
    exert influence, for the Minsk Group co-chairs to find a mutually
    acceptable solution."

    Lowenkron said that another important aspect of the problem is the
    protection of human rights, in particular, those of Azerbaijanis
    displaced as a result of the armed conflict. Azerbaijan continues to
    suffer from the lingering dispute, which certainly worries Washington,
    he added.

    The United States co-chairs the Minsk Group, along with Russia
    and France.

    Upper Garabagh, which is internationally recognized as part of
    Azerbaijan, was occupied by Armenia in the early 1990s, along with
    seven other Azerbaijani districts, after large-scale hostilities that
    killed up to 30,000 people and forced a million Azeris out of their
    homes. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but peace talks have
    been fruitless so far and refugees remain stranded.
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