17:23, 13 February 2004

Azerbaijan is ready to start negotiating Karabakh problem from beginning

Baku finds it possible to start negotiating the problem of Nagorny Karabakh with Yerevan from scratch.

"One will be able to speak about principles in the negotiation process only when both the parties accept them. And it would be possible to go ahead proceeding from them. Today there is no principle that both the sides accept in the Karabakh settlement, therefore Azerbaijan has full authority to start from the beginning," Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev said to journalists on February 11.

"The reality is that no issue has been adjusted in the course of the negotiations, and this in itself proves that the resolution process is still at naught. The Armenian party simply wants to impose some proposals on Azerbaijan, but it will never succeed in doing it," stressed the minister.

Source: Interfax News Agency