BAKU READY TO NEGOTIATE WITH KARABAGH IF ARMENIA WITHDRAWS FROM TALKS

BAKU, DECEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS: A senior official of the Azerbaijan’s president administration was quoted last Friday by Russian Interfax news agency as saying that the official Baku was ready to engage in dialogue with Nagorno Karabagh to end the conflict on condition that Armenia withdraws officially from the negotiation process.
Novruz Mamedov, the chief of external relations departments at Azeri president Ilham Aliyev’s staff, said the dialogue with Nagorno Karabagh was in principle possible, adding that in that case Armenian leadership would have to officially walk out of the talks and promise not to interfere. He said Azerbaijan would negotiate in that case with Karabagh as an integral part of Azerbaijan.