AZERI MINISTER REVEALS DETAILS OF KARABAKH TALKS

AZERI MINISTER REVEALS DETAILS OF KARABAKH TALKS

ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
30 Apr 04

BAKU

The next meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers
will be held on 12 May, most probably on the sidelines of a session of
the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Council of Europe in
Strasbourg, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told
journalists today.

Asked by an ITAR-TASS correspondent whether the sides were ready for
compromises, the foreign minister said that “this is a subject of
negotiations”. “We are discussing a number of ideas,” Mammadyarov
said, adding that one of them was the liberation of seven districts of
Azerbaijan in exchange for the reopening of transport links with
Armenia.

The foreign minister believes that a useful exchange of opinion was
held between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents within the
framework of the European economic forum in Warsaw on 28 April. He
also said that Baku had given the green light to Ankara’s initiative
to hold a trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey.