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Official Baku displeased with the outcome of the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is skeptical about the recent visit to the region of the OSCE Minsk Group. According to him, their last visit to Armenia does not give grounds for optimism.
According to Mammadyarov, Armenia should abandon the principle of "not a step back" and the status quo should be changed. The unsettled conflict can lead to the development of events "in an undesirable direction", said the minister.
Azerbaijan continues to believe that to advance the peace process the withdrawal of Armenian forces from the occupied territories is required.
This position has been supported many times in the statements of the Presidents of the co-chairs.
If Armenia is really ready to take the co-chairs' suggestions expressed by the heads of the U.S., Russia and France in the statement at the summit of the "Big Eight" in L'Aquila, then it's time to sign the peace agreement.
Azerbaijan is ready to begin work on the text of the agreement. As stressed by Mamedyarov, the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied territories must start, followed by negotiations on the settlement of all other items.
In turn, the head of international relations department of the presidential administration Novruz Mammadov accused the Armenian side of the artificial prolonging of the negotiations. -06D -
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- Economics
- 28 November 2012 13:22
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- Question-answer
- 28 November 2012 13:31
Politics
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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