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    BAKU WITHHOLDS COMMENT ON YEREVAN'S KARABAKH POSITION

    news.az
    March 29 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Elkhan Polukhov The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has not yet been
    informed of Armenia's position on the updated Madrid principles for
    a Karabakh settlement.

    Azerbaijan will determine its attitude to Armenia's position only
    after it has been briefed by the OSCE Minsk Group mediators, Foreign
    Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said today.

    'We must learn the position of the Armenian side on the updated
    Madrid principles and only after this will we declare our vision on
    the issue,' the diplomat said.

    The Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Yury Merzlyakov, said
    in Karabakh that the Armenian side did not agree with some points in
    the updated Madrid principles.

    The updated Madrid principles are proposed by the mediators as the
    basis for negotiations on a Karabakh settlement. Baku accepts the
    updated principles in general, but 'there are elements that do not
    suit us', Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said earlier this month.

    The Madrid principles include the return of the territories surrounding
    Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control, an interim status for Karabakh
    providing guarantees for security and self-governance, and the future
    determination of the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh through
    a legally binding expression of will.

    Azerbaijan has said that any referendum on the status of Karabakh
    would have to be held in Azerbaijan as a whole.
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