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    BAKU ADMITS TURKEY UNLIKELY TO MEDIATE ON KARABAKH

    news.az
    May 3 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Elkhan Polukhov The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that
    Turkey is unlikely to become one of the OSCE Minsk Group mediators
    on the Karabakh conflict.

    'The agreement of both sides of the conflict, i.e. Azerbaijan and
    Armenia, is needed to change the format of the Minsk Group. In this
    case Armenia is against the inclusion of Turkey in the format, as it
    has repeatedly said,' Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan
    Polukhov told 1news.az on Saturday.

    He was commenting on remarks by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman
    Andrey Nesterenko that Moscow had not received a proposal to include
    Turkey as an OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.

    'Anyway, the agreement of all parties is needed in order to make this
    proposal reality. Considering that the ratification of the protocols
    on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations has been suspended,
    such an agreement is unlikely,' Nesterenko said.

    Azerbaijan has recently criticized the work of the OSCE Minsk Group
    co-chairs who are from Russia, the USA and France. The idea of Turkey
    becoming a co-chair of the mediating group has been mooted by officials
    in Turkey and Azerbaijan.
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