October 2, 2002 - 22:37 AMT
BAKU NOT GOING TO REFUSE OSCE MINSK GROUP MEDIATION SERVICES
Azerbaijan holds to its previous position concerning the necessity of the OSCE Minsk group activities in the cause of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, and the official Baku position in this regard will probably remain the same. Chief of external affairs department of Azeri presidential administration Novruz Mamedov said that regarding the yesterday's statements made by a number of Azeri deputies speaking for refusal from mediation services provided by the OSCE Minsk group or any other international organizations in solving the Karabakh problem. At the same time the deputies accused Russian ambassador Nikolai Gribkov and deputy foreign minister of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov in jaundice towards Azerbaijan urging not to receive the Russian mediators in Baku any more. In these deputies' opinions, the only acceptable solution of the conflict is the forced one.