AZERI OFFICIAL CENSURES US ENVOY’S STATEMENT ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Azeri Press Agency
August 4 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku, 4 August: "If you look at the history of Matthew Bryza’s
[US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group] statements, you will notice
that on the next day, he either refutes [his own statements] or says
completely different things. That is why, I do not want to comment on
Bryza’s latest statement", APA news agency quoted the press secretary
of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Xazar Ibrahim, as commenting on
US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Matthew Bryza’s statement voiced
in Moscow.
Xazar Ibrahim has listed the current issues which are on the
negotiations table as below: the conflict will be resolved
step-by-step, the Armenian armed forces will be withdrawn from
Azerbaijani territories, all internally displaced persons of Azerbaijan
will return to their native lands and only after establishing normal
relations between the communities, the status of Nagornyy Karabakh will
be defined within the framework of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
According to Xazar Ibrahim, the significance of the negotiations is
that the process continues, however, nothing can be said about the
breakthrough: "If there was some breakthrough, we could have spoken
about new conditions. No such thing exists currently".
In the statement issued in Moscow, Matthew Bryza said that negotiations
between Armenia and Azerbaijan include liberation of the districts
surrounding Nagornyy Karabakh, deployment of peacemaking forces in the
region and holding a referendum to define Nagornyy Karabakh’s status.