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    AREAS AROUND KARABAKH CAN BE RETURNED TO AZERBAIJAN

    Interfax
    March 23 2010
    Russia

    Armenia will return the territories around Nagorno-Karabakh to
    Azerbaijan only after receiving guarantees on the security of
    Stepanakert, President Serzh Sargsyan said.

    "When the people of Karabakh get the real chance to exercise
    their right to self-determination and to create effective security
    and development mechanisms, Armenia might consider returning the
    territories around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, as a mutual
    concession, while preserving Nagorno-Karabakh and, of course, the
    corridor linking it to Armenia," Sargsyan said in an interview with
    the Syrian Al Watan newspaper, the text of which was released by the
    Armenian president's office on Tuesday.

    "I have repeatedly stated this. However, the key element in the notion
    of "mutual concession" is the principle of reciprocity, and one has to
    realize that in such situations unilateral concessions only aggravate
    the existing threats," the Armenian president said.

    Baku lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent areas
    during a violent conflict which began in the 1990s between Armenia and
    Azerbaijan over the status of Karabakh. As a result, around one million
    Azerbaijanis became refugees and displaced persons. Using resolutions
    the United Nations Security Council condemned the occupation of the
    Azerbaijani territories and demanded the withdrawal of Armenian forces.

    Currently, internationally-brokered negotiations on this problem
    involve co-chairmen of the OSCE (Organization for Security and
    Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group, consisting of the United States,
    Russia and France.

    The status of this region is the stumbling block in the Nagorno-
    Karabakh talks. In solving this problem, the mediators are trying to
    combine two principles of international law: territorial integrity (on
    which Baku is relying) and the right of a nation's self-determination
    (Yerevan's approach).
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