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BAKU WELCOMES IRAN'S INTENTION TO FACILITATE KARABAKH SETTLEMENT PROCESS - AZERI FOREIGN MINISTER
Interfax, Russia
July 17 2013
BAKU. July 17
Baku welcomes Iran's intentions to facilitate the settlement of
the Azeri-Armenian conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azeri Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a joint press conference with
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Baku on Wednesday.
"Concerning Iran's initiative on taking part in facilitating the
settlement process, we will welcome it if some country makes attempts
to set this process in motion. We want the conflict to be resolved,"
Mammadyarov said.
He agreed with Davutoglu that Nagorno-Karabakh is a difficult process,
for "otherwise it would have been resolved long ago."
"Therefore, Azerbaijan always and everywhere brings up the issue of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and will be doing this further," he said.
Baku is discontented with the mediators' activities in settling this
conflict, he said.
"I am asked sometimes whether Azerbaijan is satisfied with the
OSCE Minsk Group's activities. We are really dissatisfied with it,
as there is no result, and our land remains under occupation. There
have been no actions so far, and therefore we are unhappy about the
Minsk Group's activities," he said.
For positive changes to happen in the process, Armenia should withdraw
its troops from the Azeri territories they have occupied, he said.
"If Armenia withdraws its troops from the occupied territories,
serious changes will start happening in the region," he said.
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Interfax, Russia
July 17 2013
BAKU. July 17
Baku welcomes Iran's intentions to facilitate the settlement of
the Azeri-Armenian conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azeri Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a joint press conference with
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Baku on Wednesday.
"Concerning Iran's initiative on taking part in facilitating the
settlement process, we will welcome it if some country makes attempts
to set this process in motion. We want the conflict to be resolved,"
Mammadyarov said.
He agreed with Davutoglu that Nagorno-Karabakh is a difficult process,
for "otherwise it would have been resolved long ago."
"Therefore, Azerbaijan always and everywhere brings up the issue of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and will be doing this further," he said.
Baku is discontented with the mediators' activities in settling this
conflict, he said.
"I am asked sometimes whether Azerbaijan is satisfied with the
OSCE Minsk Group's activities. We are really dissatisfied with it,
as there is no result, and our land remains under occupation. There
have been no actions so far, and therefore we are unhappy about the
Minsk Group's activities," he said.
For positive changes to happen in the process, Armenia should withdraw
its troops from the Azeri territories they have occupied, he said.
"If Armenia withdraws its troops from the occupied territories,
serious changes will start happening in the region," he said.
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