AZERI PRESIDENT REGARDS NK CONFLICT AS HIS COUNTRY’S MAJOR PROBLEM
Author: Z.Ibrahimli
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
April 27 2006
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev regards the conflict with Armenia on
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as his country’s major problem. He made
a statement while addressing to the foreign Relations Council which
commenced his first official visit to the United States, Trend reports.
The President voiced his hope that the current talks on
Nagorno-Karabakh will create necessary conditions for just and durable
peace, based on the principles of the international law. “We hope
that the United States as super power and OSCE Minsk Group co-chair
will contribute in the resolution of the conflict,” Aliyev underlined.
Baku is sure that such way of settlement can be peaceable and only
the international rule of law can be a base for talks. The territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan is recognized by UN and all world countries,
except Armenia, he stated.
Russian Ambassador Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair,
who was present in the gathering, told ITAR-TASS that he was gong
to visit Moscow next week for next round of consultations which
his counterparts. He is in optimistic mood, noting his feeling for
‘efficient base for compromise’. The US Ambassador particularly noted
as important principle the refusal from the attempts of complete
resolution of the exiting problems. He clarified that the current
approach was contradictory: movement forward step by step and leaving
some difficult issues for future, ITAR-TASS reports.