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    ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFLICT OBSTACLE TO PEACE, STABILITY IN SOUTH CAUCASUS

    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    July 11 2006

    YEREVAN, July 11. /ARKA/. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over
    Nagorno-Karabakh is an obstacle to peace and stability in the South
    Caucasus, the leading journalist of the "Bakinskiye Vedomosti"
    (Baku Gazette), writer Alekper Aliyev stated at an international
    conference "European integration as a factor promoting Nagorno-Karabakh
    settlement".

    The public in both countries is unwilling to accept the settlement
    schemes being discussed by the negotiating parties, he said.

    Aliyev pointed out that mutual mistrust between Armenia and Azerbaijan
    is the most serious problem in the settlement process.

    "Mutual demonization, growing military expenses and more frequent
    violations of the cease-fire regime testify that the time for a
    peaceful settlement is expiring," he said.

    Aliyev expressed the conviction of an urgent need for setting a
    barrier to mutual propaganda of hatred.

    The conference has been organized on the initiative of the Caucasian
    Center of Peace Initiatives under the "South Caucasian integration:
    alternative start" project. The conference was held in cooperation
    with the Analytical Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation
    and Fridrich Ebert Fund. Among the participants were over 20 experts,
    political scientists, journalists, public and political figures from
    Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, NKR, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. P.T.

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