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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH AT THE TOP LEVEL

    WPS Agency
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    April 22, 2009 Wednesday
    Russia

    Russia want to take the lead in reconciling Azerbaijan and Armenia

    BYLINE: Yevgeny Gospodinov

    RUSSIA WILL HOST A MEETING FOR ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN; President
    Dmitri Medvedev held talks yestersay with President Ilham Aliyev
    of Azerbaijan. Besides energy issues, on which the two countries
    have almost no differences, the presidents also discussed the
    Nagorno-Karabakh situation.

    President Dmitri Medvedev held talks at his Maindorf residence
    yestersay with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. Besides energy
    issues, on which the two countries have almost no differences, the
    presidents also discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh situation. Medvedev
    promised Aliyev to make every effort to regulate this difficult but
    "solvable" problem. But Moscow isn't getting involved in peacekeeping
    just out of the kindness of its heart. According to our sources,
    Russia is insistently requesting Aliyev to curtail military technology
    cooperation with Georgia.

    After noting that cooperation with Azerbaijan is developing quite
    rapidly, Medvedev let it be understood that we can cooperate even
    more intensively, especially in the gas sector. Aliyev announced
    that his country plans to increase oil throughput volumes for the
    Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline. Aliyev also thanked Russia for its
    attempts to reconcile the positions of Armenia and Azerbaijan on
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh situation was one of the key issues discussed
    by the two presidents at their private meeting. Russia is preparing
    to host an Armenian-Azeri summit on Nagorno-Karabakh; it will take
    place at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. In the presence of
    President Medvedev, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan are
    supposed to discuss regulation of the long-running conflict, and
    (ideally) reach some sort of agreement - as they did last autumn in
    Moscow (Serge Sargsian and Ilham Aliyev signed a joint declaration
    on Nagorno-Karabakh).

    By securing another meeting for the two leaders on Russian territory,
    Russia is aiming to confirm its position as the chief mediator between
    Baku and Yerevan. Medvedev said as much yesterday: "Russia is prepared
    to carry out its own mandate. We have always tried to facilitate
    this process, and if such contacts are continued - and there is no
    alternative to doing so - I'm sure that this problem can be resolved,
    based on the interests of both peoples."
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