Baku agrees on Oskanian Mamedyarov meeting in Geneva

PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs offered to hold a meeting between Armenian and Azeri FMs March 13-14, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov stated. "Azerbaijan has given its agreement but I do not know Armenia's position and I cannot speak about it. What if Armenian foreign minister does not agree to meet me? And now it's difficult for me to say what the matter can concerns, since it is unknown if the Armenian FM wants to meet me," he stated. Mamedyarov said, the meeting is scheduled to be held in the framework of "Prague" format. "That is axiomatic Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is not a subject for discussions. In this case we are talking about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement with step-by-step approach, taking away problematic questions, namely withdrawal of Armenian troops from occupied territories, return of Azeri population, mine clearing, reconstruction of infrastructure, economic cooperation. In other words, we are putting off all these questions leaving the main one-determination of political status of Nagorno Karabakh within Azerbaijan. Still it is a subject of negotiations and it is very important to organize the return of Azeri population, after which they together will decide the status of Nagorno Karabakh-if it will be a republic or an autonomous region within Azerbaijan," E. Mamedyarov told, "Trend" reports.
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