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BAKU READY TO START WORK ON PEACE ACCORD ON KARABAKH - FOREIGN MINISTER
Interfax
July 13 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan has urged Armenia to start work on a peace agreement on
the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem without delay.
"Certain progress has been made, I think, and we can quietly move
toward a peace agreement," Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov
said in an interview with Interfax in Baku.
Asked when Baku could start talks with Armenia on the peace agreement,
Mamedyarov said, "Right now, if they want."
"Media reports claim extensively that the Kazan summit was not
successful, but I disagree," Mamedyarov said on the meeting in Kazan
between the Russia, Azeri and Armenian presidents on June 24.
"I side better with the position that, first, rapprochement was
accomplished and this was reflected in the presidents' statement. And,
second, that Azerbaijan and Armenia must continue the talks without
any publicity stunts or hysterics, and work further to draw their
positions nearer," he said. "Moreover, Azerbaijan remains on the
position it had in 2010 after Sochi: we are prepared to start drafting
a peace accord with what has been achieved taken into account. Kazan
allowed us to move further," Mamedyarov said.
"We were aware that some unsettled elements still existed. But they
must in a way be reflected in the peace agreement. If the good will is
indeed there, let us start working on it right away, without waiting
for the next stage in the talks on the basic principles," he said.
"Inside the basis principles there are unsettled details. Why trebling
efforts to negotiate these elements, if they will be reflected in the
peace agreement anyway. Why make unnecessary fuss. Let us concentrate
right away on a peace agreement and demonstrate our political will to
the world, and show that we are prepared to start working at once on a
legally binding peace agreement rather than on a political document,"
Mamedyarov said.
From: Baghdasarian
Interfax
July 13 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan has urged Armenia to start work on a peace agreement on
the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem without delay.
"Certain progress has been made, I think, and we can quietly move
toward a peace agreement," Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov
said in an interview with Interfax in Baku.
Asked when Baku could start talks with Armenia on the peace agreement,
Mamedyarov said, "Right now, if they want."
"Media reports claim extensively that the Kazan summit was not
successful, but I disagree," Mamedyarov said on the meeting in Kazan
between the Russia, Azeri and Armenian presidents on June 24.
"I side better with the position that, first, rapprochement was
accomplished and this was reflected in the presidents' statement. And,
second, that Azerbaijan and Armenia must continue the talks without
any publicity stunts or hysterics, and work further to draw their
positions nearer," he said. "Moreover, Azerbaijan remains on the
position it had in 2010 after Sochi: we are prepared to start drafting
a peace accord with what has been achieved taken into account. Kazan
allowed us to move further," Mamedyarov said.
"We were aware that some unsettled elements still existed. But they
must in a way be reflected in the peace agreement. If the good will is
indeed there, let us start working on it right away, without waiting
for the next stage in the talks on the basic principles," he said.
"Inside the basis principles there are unsettled details. Why trebling
efforts to negotiate these elements, if they will be reflected in the
peace agreement anyway. Why make unnecessary fuss. Let us concentrate
right away on a peace agreement and demonstrate our political will to
the world, and show that we are prepared to start working at once on a
legally binding peace agreement rather than on a political document,"
Mamedyarov said.
From: Baghdasarian