Azerbaijan is ready to discuss the Karabakh conflict settlement based on the proposals on the negotiations, said the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov at a meeting of the two presidents in Bern in an interview with "Azertaj". He also admitted that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov presented proposals to Azerbaijan and Armenia to resolve the Karabakh conflict. Without specifying what Lavrov proposed, Mammadyarov said that the proposals contain the agreements reached in 2014 at the meeting of presidents in Sochi, New Port and Paris. The talk is about the updated Madrid principles. Further, he accused Armenia of evading the main issues and focusing on minor points, such as the investigation of incidents at contact line.
At a meeting in Bern he called for the release of Dilgama Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev convicted in Karabakh , recalling that recently Azerbaijan as a sign of goodwill passed Armenia the Armenian family," said Mammadyarov. Further, the Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed readiness to work with the Baku OSCE Minsk Group that the Azerbaijani authorities are constantly criticizing for inaction and lack of objectivity. It should be noted that the Armenian side expressed pessimism after a meeting in Berne.-02D-
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