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BAKU TO 'DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE' TO RESOLVE KARABAKH CONFLICT
news.az
Jan 27 2011
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is looking to establish peace and stability in the Caucasus,
above all, to resolve the Karabakh conflict, its foreign minister
has said.
Elmar Mammadyarov was talking in an interview with Russia Today's
Arabic Service.
"In the 21st century you cannot build and support neighbourly relations
by turning a blind eye to the occupation of 20% of Azerbaijani lands
and the ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijani civilians in this area,"
Mammadyarov said.
"We should search for ways to settle the conflict which protect the
interests of all parties."
"'I have come to Moscow to continue the search for ways out of this
conflict through Russian mediation," the minister said.
He met his Armenian counterpart, Edward Nalbandian, in Moscow on 24
January with the mediation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Although the need to reinforce the ceasefire was noted in a declaration
signed by the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents at the
end of October, people are still dying on the contact line separating
troops, Mammadyarov said. An Azerbaijani officer was killed by Armenian
fire on the contact line on 25 January and a soldier on the 17th.
"We should do everything possible to settle this conflict,"
the minister said and went on to outline the basic subjects for
negotiation, known as the Madrid principles.
He said that first of all troops should be withdrawn from the occupied
lands, refugees should return to their homes and infrastructure in
the occupied lands should be restored.
"The current state cannot last for ever. In order to make a
breakthrough in the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, we should use all
means," Mammadyarov said.
The minister especially noted the role of Russian President Dmitriy
Medvedev in attaining the agreement on the exchange of bodies and
prisoners between Armenia and Azerbaijani in the autumn.
Mammadyarov also described as successful the Meiendorf declaration,
signed by the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents following talks
mediated by Dmitriy Medvedev at Meiendorf Castle, near Moscow, in
November 2008. In that declaration, the presidents agreed to step
up their efforts to resolve the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh and to
develop confidence-building measures.
From: A. Papazian
news.az
Jan 27 2011
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is looking to establish peace and stability in the Caucasus,
above all, to resolve the Karabakh conflict, its foreign minister
has said.
Elmar Mammadyarov was talking in an interview with Russia Today's
Arabic Service.
"In the 21st century you cannot build and support neighbourly relations
by turning a blind eye to the occupation of 20% of Azerbaijani lands
and the ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijani civilians in this area,"
Mammadyarov said.
"We should search for ways to settle the conflict which protect the
interests of all parties."
"'I have come to Moscow to continue the search for ways out of this
conflict through Russian mediation," the minister said.
He met his Armenian counterpart, Edward Nalbandian, in Moscow on 24
January with the mediation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Although the need to reinforce the ceasefire was noted in a declaration
signed by the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents at the
end of October, people are still dying on the contact line separating
troops, Mammadyarov said. An Azerbaijani officer was killed by Armenian
fire on the contact line on 25 January and a soldier on the 17th.
"We should do everything possible to settle this conflict,"
the minister said and went on to outline the basic subjects for
negotiation, known as the Madrid principles.
He said that first of all troops should be withdrawn from the occupied
lands, refugees should return to their homes and infrastructure in
the occupied lands should be restored.
"The current state cannot last for ever. In order to make a
breakthrough in the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, we should use all
means," Mammadyarov said.
The minister especially noted the role of Russian President Dmitriy
Medvedev in attaining the agreement on the exchange of bodies and
prisoners between Armenia and Azerbaijani in the autumn.
Mammadyarov also described as successful the Meiendorf declaration,
signed by the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents following talks
mediated by Dmitriy Medvedev at Meiendorf Castle, near Moscow, in
November 2008. In that declaration, the presidents agreed to step
up their efforts to resolve the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh and to
develop confidence-building measures.
From: A. Papazian