"BREAKFAST MENU OF KOCHARYAN AND ALIEV MAY ALTER"

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[09:25 pm] 24 May, 2007

"Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet, because they should
meet. Nothing will change in the negotiations till 2008, but for
the breakfast or dinner menues of Kocharyan and Aliev", announced
Azerbaijani politician Arif Yunusov, the Head of the Department of
Conflictology and Migration of the Institute of Peace and Democracy,
who was participating in the "Caucasus 2006" conference in Yerevan.

In his report Yunusov presented the progress registered in Azerbaijan
during the recent years. The results of the surveys carried out in
the last 4 years Yunusov found out that if in the past only 30 percent
of Azerbaijani population was for the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict trough military way, today 56 percent favors it. "Youth
Azerbaijan is very radical today and they are for the restarting of
the war".

Among the recent successes of Azerbaijan Arif Yunusov mentioned Baku
Jeihan pipeline exploitation. He assured that soon Kars-Akhalqalak-Baku
Railway would be exploited and the US would finance that project.

The Azerbaijani politician prioritizes Iran-USA relations for his
country. "30-35 million Azeri live in Iran today. In case of US-Iran
conflict, any position of Azerbaijan will be dangerous", finds Yunusov.

Arif Yunusov considers the possible union of present Azerbaijan and
Northern part of Iran "which is the most important point of pan Turkism
project". He also noted that today Azerbaijan was in better relations
with NATO than Georgia; however, in order not to spoil relations with
the Russian Federation no one makes this public. "Official Baku is
confident in is external policy".

"In the Russian and Azerbijan relations Azerbaijan is the leader,
while in Azerbaijan the RF-West relations West is the leader", said
Arif Yunusov. The majority of the population in Azerbaijan is against
both the RF and the West. And to the question as where Azerbaijan is
headed today Yunusov replied: "To Armenia" and then added "To Islam".