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Interfax, Russia
Feb 12 2011
Azerbaijan says getting ready to use armed force to get back Nagorno-Karabakh
BAKU. Feb 12
Azerbaijan's armed forces are getting ready to restore Azeri
sovereignty over the country's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh and adjoining ethnic Azeri districts, which have been
under Armenian occupation since a 1990s war between Azerbaijan and
Armenia, the Azeri defense minister said.
"This is the way all states behave in such situations, and no one can
blame Azerbaijan," the minister, Col. Gen. Safar Abiyev, said at a
meeting with the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group, a mediator body set
up by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Abiyev said the Minsk Group's efforts had been fruitless but that
Azerbaijan was still hoping the OSCE body would be able to broker
peace. However, he added, a negotiated solution was impossible without
Armenian forces pulling out of Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the Minsk Group co-chairmen, Igor Popov of Russia, Robert
Bradtke of the United States and Bernard Fassier of France, met with
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, and the day before had meetings in
Yerevan, capital of Armenia, with the latter's President Serzh
Sargsyan, Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan, and Defense Minister
Seyran Ohanyan.
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From: A. Papazian
Feb 12 2011
Azerbaijan says getting ready to use armed force to get back Nagorno-Karabakh
BAKU. Feb 12
Azerbaijan's armed forces are getting ready to restore Azeri
sovereignty over the country's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh and adjoining ethnic Azeri districts, which have been
under Armenian occupation since a 1990s war between Azerbaijan and
Armenia, the Azeri defense minister said.
"This is the way all states behave in such situations, and no one can
blame Azerbaijan," the minister, Col. Gen. Safar Abiyev, said at a
meeting with the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group, a mediator body set
up by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Abiyev said the Minsk Group's efforts had been fruitless but that
Azerbaijan was still hoping the OSCE body would be able to broker
peace. However, he added, a negotiated solution was impossible without
Armenian forces pulling out of Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the Minsk Group co-chairmen, Igor Popov of Russia, Robert
Bradtke of the United States and Bernard Fassier of France, met with
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, and the day before had meetings in
Yerevan, capital of Armenia, with the latter's President Serzh
Sargsyan, Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan, and Defense Minister
Seyran Ohanyan.
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From: A. Papazian