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Interfax, Russia
June 23 2010
Meeting between Armenian, Azeri presidents helped clarify parties'
positions - Azeri foreign minister
BAKU June 23
A meeting between Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan in St. Petersburg was important in terms of clarifying
the parties' positions in settling the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a press conference on
Wednesday.
"Meetings between the Azeri and Armenian presidents are very
important. As is well known, the previous time the heads of state met
was in Sochi in January 2010. It was important to hold a new meeting
in St. Petersburg in June to clarify the positions once again," he
said.
"It was necessary to do that, as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
presented an updated version of the Madrid Principles in Athens in
December last year," Mammadyarov said.
Azerbaijan has already presented its position on this document and
believes that it provides a good basis for drawing up a comprehensive
peace agreement, he said.
"Unfortunately, Armenia once again failed to give a definite answer in
St. Petersburg. It is very difficult to work in such conditions,
because, on the one hand, Armenia says it agrees with the Madrid
Principles, and on the other, it says that it cannot accept some of
their provisions," he said.
Armenia is acting this way even despite the fact that the work on the
Madrid Principles proposed in 2006 continued until 2009 and the
parties have held intense negotiations on them, based on which an
updated version of the document has been drawn up, he said.
From: A. Papazian
June 23 2010
Meeting between Armenian, Azeri presidents helped clarify parties'
positions - Azeri foreign minister
BAKU June 23
A meeting between Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan in St. Petersburg was important in terms of clarifying
the parties' positions in settling the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a press conference on
Wednesday.
"Meetings between the Azeri and Armenian presidents are very
important. As is well known, the previous time the heads of state met
was in Sochi in January 2010. It was important to hold a new meeting
in St. Petersburg in June to clarify the positions once again," he
said.
"It was necessary to do that, as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
presented an updated version of the Madrid Principles in Athens in
December last year," Mammadyarov said.
Azerbaijan has already presented its position on this document and
believes that it provides a good basis for drawing up a comprehensive
peace agreement, he said.
"Unfortunately, Armenia once again failed to give a definite answer in
St. Petersburg. It is very difficult to work in such conditions,
because, on the one hand, Armenia says it agrees with the Madrid
Principles, and on the other, it says that it cannot accept some of
their provisions," he said.
Armenia is acting this way even despite the fact that the work on the
Madrid Principles proposed in 2006 continued until 2009 and the
parties have held intense negotiations on them, based on which an
updated version of the document has been drawn up, he said.
From: A. Papazian