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    OSCE MG: NAGORNO KARABAKH RESIDENTS SHOULD PLAY KEY ROLE IN DETERMINING THEIR REGION'S STATUS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    05.08.2008 14:08 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The August 1 meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian
    Foreign Ministers in Moscow was positive, according to OSCE Minsk
    Group U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza.

    "Both Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandian told a news conference
    that their tete-a-tete discussion was held in a positive vein,"
    Amb. Bryza said.

    He said the Foreign Ministers agreed to continue negotiations under
    the aegis of the Minsk Group to bring positions of their countries'
    closer, as outlined in the Co-chairs' November 2007 Madrid Document,
    up to a final resolution.

    When commenting on his Moscow statement, Bryza said the Co-chairs
    proceed from a starting position of recognizing Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity. "To reach a political settlement of the Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan will eventually have to reach
    a compromise on NK's status. We cannot predict what that compromise
    will look like, or when it will emerge. But, the Co-chairs recommend
    that the residents of Nagorno Karabakh play a key role in determining
    their region's status through some type of vote in the future,"
    he said.

    The U.S. mediator supposes that the nature of referendum must be
    negotiated by the sides.

    "Such a process can only be launched after the return of internally
    displaced persons and refugees and can take quite some period of time,"
    he said, the Azeri Press Agency reports.
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