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    AZERI OFFICIAL CRITICAL OF US POLICY ON KARABAKH

    Azad Azarbaycan TV
    April 17 2008
    Azerbaijan

    [Presenter] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should display a
    well-founded position while expressing her views on the settlement
    of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. An official of the presidential
    administration, Novruz Mammadov, has said that it is impossible to
    agree with Rice's latest statement on the conflict settlement.

    [Correspondent] Baku does not totally agree with US Secretary of
    State Condoleezza Rice's latest statement on the settlement of the
    Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. The state secretary's statement that -
    if Armenia and Azerbaijan show a little political will, the Nagornyy
    Karabakh conflict may be solved quite quickly - does not really
    reflect the reality, the head of the foreign relations department of
    the presidential administration, Novruz Mammadov, has said.

    [Novruz Mammadov in his office] Relevant staff members should
    give Condoleezza Rice accurate information about this conflict,
    the essence of the negotiations, the essence of the position of
    the parties and their principles so that Mrs Condoleezza Rice can
    express a substantiated opinion about this conflict, i.e. express a
    well-founded position. This is the main issue.

    The US secretary of state should take account of cooperation and
    strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and America and its future
    and declare one day that a fair solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    Nagornyy Karabakh conflict is a priority for US policy.

    [Correspondent] As for the recent Department of State statement on the
    Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Novruz Mammadov said that such statements
    had been made before as well. However, the latest events allow
    Azerbaijan to reconsider the negotiating process on the settlement
    of the conflict.

    [Mammadov] Is it possible to be sure that the [OSCE] Minsk Group
    co-chairs are totally neutral in this issue? Or are the countries
    represented in the Minsk Group really taking a resolute position on
    a fair solution to the conflict? I think that such statements are
    correct, but the Minsk Group co-chairs, as leading states of the
    world and as states that form the world order and form, support and
    guarantee international law, should reconsider their position.

    We want to discuss the status of Nagornyy Karabakh by granting it the
    highest and broadest degree of autonomy on the basis of Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity. Why are these countries not taking a specific
    position on the seven districts that surround Nagornyy Karabakh and
    are larger than Nagornyy Karabakh?

    [Correspondent] Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan says that his
    country is not afraid of Azerbaijan's threats. Baku explains only
    by one reason Sargsyan's statement that Azerbaijan should understand
    that Nagornyy Karabakh's independence is an undeniable fact.

    [Mammadov] In fact, they are saying all this out of fear. All Armenians
    have a strong fear in their hearts at the moment. They know that
    the Sword of Damocles will fall on the heads one day. They are held
    hostage by their own ideas and separatism, because Serzh Sargsyan
    himself and everyone around him have committed so many tragedies on
    the wave of separatism.

    [Correspondent] The department head said that separatists are usually
    unaware of international law. For this reason, the Armenian leadership
    endangers the future of its own people with such ideas. He should
    understand that the Armenian people have already exercised their
    right to self-determination. It would be better if Sargsyan would be
    surrounded by people who are aware of law so that they do not lead
    their people to a disaster, end quote.

    Aytan Musayeva and Ramil Ismayilov, "Son Xabar".
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