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    Interfax, Russia
    Nov 27 2008


    Nagorno-Karabakh declaration does not rule out war - Aliyev

    BAKU Nov 27


    An Azeri-Armenian-Russian declaration signed early this month and
    generally hailed as marking significant progress toward the settlement
    of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict does not prevent Azerbaijan from
    using armed force to resolve the conflict, Azeri President Ilham
    Aliyev said.

    "No one would be able to find a commitment in that declaration that
    bars the military way [of resolving the conflict] to Azerbaijan,"
    Aliyev told Italian television channel RAI International.

    Azeri state television AzTV also broadcast the interview.

    The declaration, issued at a Russian-brokered Azeri-Armenian summit in
    Moscow, says the conflict must resolved by political means.

    "On the basis of all international standards, every state possesses a
    right to self-defense. Azerbaijan is a victim of Armenian aggression.

    As a result of this aggression, it is not only Nagorno-Karabakh that
    is under Armenian occupation but also seven districts outside it in
    which Armenians have never lived. Our people are suffering from this,
    and so, while we hope for a political solution, we must simultaneously
    be ready to take any measures and the military way is not, has never
    been and never will be ruled out as a way of restoring our territorial
    integrity," Aliyev said.

    Azerbaijan has become much more powerful in military, political and
    economic terms during the past five years, he said.

    "But the fact that there have been negotiations for nearly two decades
    shows that a peaceful way is our goal. No one wants a war in the
    Caucasus. But at the same time we cannot put up with the present-day
    situation," Aliyev said.

    The so-called Moscow declaration bears the signatures of Aliyev and
    his Armenian and Russian counterparts, Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry
    Medvedev.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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