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    ALIYEV SLAMS MINSK GROUP, ARMENIA OVER LINGERING KARABAKH CONFLICT

    TERT.AM
    11:09 ~U 20.03.13

    The Azerbaijani president has criticized Armenia and the OSCE Minsk
    Group over a failure to reach a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict.

    "The most painful issue for our country, the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    conflict over Karabakh, won't find a solution, unfortunately,"
    Ilham Aliev said, accusing Armenia of non-constructivism and the
    international mediators - of indifference.

    "Armenia is, of course, interested in the maximum long maintenance of
    the status quo, a situation which implies neither a war nor peace,
    but that cannot satisfy us. Azerbaijan uses and will keep using
    all the possible tools to promote a progress and development in
    the negotiation process to achieve a quick settlement and have its
    territorial integrity reinstated," the Azerbaijani leader said in a
    congratulatory speech dedicated Nowruz, the Iranian new year.

    He then stressed the importance of relying on the norms of
    international law while achieving a solution.

    Aliyev said he is confident that the conflict will be resolved in
    Azerbaijan's favor.

    "We seek and must seek for a settlement in the nearest future. I don't
    have the slightest doubt that the problem will be resolved in our
    favor. The question is when and in what way. We now give preference
    to a diplomatic solution. In the meantime, we keep making country
    more powerful. We are isolating Armenia from all regional projects
    and will pursue those policies in future," he added.

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