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    MINSK GROUP HARDLY ENJOYS ANY CONFIDENCE IN AZERBAIJAN - POLL

    Interfax News Agency
    May 2 2008
    Russia

    The Minsk Group, an Organization for Security and Cooperation body
    mediating in the Azeri-Armenian conflict over the disputed Azeri
    Armenians-speaking enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, hardly enjoys any
    public confidence in Azerbaijan, pollsters said on Friday.

    "According to the results of the poll, the population of Azerbaijan
    is extremely dissatisfied with the Minsk Group - 66% of respondents
    categorically deny it confidence and another 15% question its
    objectivity, while 19% were undecided," Rizvan Abbasov, head of the
    Rey Monitoring Center told a news conference in reference to a survey
    by Rey.

    "In speaking about what kind of relationship Azerbaijan should have
    with the Minsk Group of the OSCE in the future, only 7% of those
    questioned were in favor of leaving everything the way it is because
    'the interchange of summands does not affect the sum,'" Abbasov said.

    "Twenty-nine percent were undecided."

    Twenty-seven percent of those questioned were in favor of changing
    the format of Nagorno-Karabakh talks by ditching the Minsk Group, 24%
    would welcome the replacement of the countries co-heading the Group,
    and 12% thought "something needs to be done in any case because the
    Minsk Group is useless," Abbasov said.

    "In a word, the poll by the Rey Monitoring Center provides evidence
    that 81% of Azerbaijan's adult population negatively assesses the
    performance of the Minsk Group of the OSCE, while 63% believe that
    it fails to cope with its mission and that one should look for a
    replacement for it. Sixty-seven percent of respondents believe the
    situation has remained unchanged, and in the opinion of 19% it has
    got worse - 13% were undecided, - in other words, the population is
    dissatisfied with the way this serious and painful problem is being
    dealt with," Abbasov said.

    Asked which conflict settlement formula they would welcome, 46%
    advocated going back to Nagorno-Karabakh's Soviet-era status as a semi-
    autonomous region of Azerbaijan, 30% were against any special status
    for the enclave, and 16% were in favor of vast autonomy for it.

    Twenty-nine percent of respondents would prefer the use of armed
    force and 65% talks as the means of resolving the conflict.

    Rey questioned 1,300 people in the poll, carried out on April 2-5.
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