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Elmar Mammadyarov: â€œAzerbaijan will not agree with current status-quo on Nagorno Karabakh issueâ€

08 July 2009 08:20 (UTC +04:00)

We are discussing the details of the settlement and preparing the meeting of the presidents. We have reached many achievements over the past five years since the beginning of Prague process. There are difficulties in the rapprochement of the positions. But the negotiations are moving forwardâ€, said Azerbaijanâ€™s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov at the international conference â€œAzerbaijan in global policy: formation of foreign policyâ€, APA reports. â€œI would like to say that the negotiations are moving with mid-speed, but it is very slowlyâ€.

The minister said that Azerbaijan intended to develop the negotiations. â€œAzerbaijanâ€™s position remains steady. Armenian armed forces must be withdrawn from the occupied lands, the lands must be liberated, internally displaced persons must return to their homeland, and after that the status of Nagorno Karabakh should be discussed. The current status-quo of the Nagorno Karabakh problem is unsatisfactory. Armenia also understands that. Azerbaijan will never agree with this status-quoâ€.