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BAKU STUDYING MEDVEDEV'S PROPOSALS ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT - FOREIGN MINISTER
Interfax
July 11 2011
Russia
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told the media on Saturday
that he would visit Russia on July 18-17 on Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov's invitation.
Mamedyarov also said that Azerbaijan is studying Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev's proposals on Karabakh settlement, handed over
by Lavrov in Baku on Friday, according to media reports. "We are
carefully studying President Medvedev's proposals and we will submit
our response after we examine them thoroughly," he said.
The Minsk Group's co-chairs understand that the status quo is
unacceptable, he said, adding that the time has come for Armenia to
remove its troops from the occupied Azeri territory.
"The parties in the conflict are currently working on a document,
based on the renewed Madrid principles. Armenia must understand that
this work must be continued without emotions. Yerevan must first of
all remove its troops from the occupied Azeri territories shortly,
which will restore regional stability and benefit Armenia itself,"
Mamedyarov said.
Medvedev wrote letters to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan after a trilateral discussion in Kazan in
June, listing proposals on ways to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, discussed lately by the three presidents with the
participation of the co-chairs in the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's Minsk group - Russia, the United States and
France, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website.
"I am happy to pass these proposals to you and I hope you will
respond to the ideas proposed after you study them," Lavrov told
Aliyev in Baku.
Medvedev, Aliyev and Sargsyan discussed the basic principles of the
Karabakh settlement in Kazan on June 24. The meeting - the ninth
over the past three years - did not produce agreements on the basic
principles. The parties only adopted a joint statement noting progress
in the process.
Interfax
July 11 2011
Russia
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told the media on Saturday
that he would visit Russia on July 18-17 on Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov's invitation.
Mamedyarov also said that Azerbaijan is studying Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev's proposals on Karabakh settlement, handed over
by Lavrov in Baku on Friday, according to media reports. "We are
carefully studying President Medvedev's proposals and we will submit
our response after we examine them thoroughly," he said.
The Minsk Group's co-chairs understand that the status quo is
unacceptable, he said, adding that the time has come for Armenia to
remove its troops from the occupied Azeri territory.
"The parties in the conflict are currently working on a document,
based on the renewed Madrid principles. Armenia must understand that
this work must be continued without emotions. Yerevan must first of
all remove its troops from the occupied Azeri territories shortly,
which will restore regional stability and benefit Armenia itself,"
Mamedyarov said.
Medvedev wrote letters to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan after a trilateral discussion in Kazan in
June, listing proposals on ways to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, discussed lately by the three presidents with the
participation of the co-chairs in the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's Minsk group - Russia, the United States and
France, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website.
"I am happy to pass these proposals to you and I hope you will
respond to the ideas proposed after you study them," Lavrov told
Aliyev in Baku.
Medvedev, Aliyev and Sargsyan discussed the basic principles of the
Karabakh settlement in Kazan on June 24. The meeting - the ninth
over the past three years - did not produce agreements on the basic
principles. The parties only adopted a joint statement noting progress
in the process.