BAKU, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told ATV on Monday that Armenia was ready to give up seven regions of Azerbaijan it occupied during an early 1990s war for the Nagorno Karabagh. “They have agreed to give up all the regions, but they are thinking when” they should do this, Mamedyarov told the network in Warsaw, where the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenian held talks Sunday. However, an Armenian foreign ministry official in Yerevan was quoted by some Armenian news media as saying that he had no information about such a agreement. Referring to Mamedyarov’s statement, foreign ministry spokesman Hamlet Gasparian said, “we have no such information. I am highly doubtful that it corresponds to the real situation.”
Meantime Turkish media reported that deputy Azeri foreign minister Araz Azimov who was in Turkey ahead of the Warsaw Council of Europe summit, informed Turkish officials about the pace of peaceful talks with Armenia, which, according to Turkish media, came as a big surprise to Ankara.
Turkish media quoted Azimov as saying that Armenia agreed to give back five of the seven Armenian-controlled regions, making the return contingent on lifting Azerbaijan’s blockade and normalization of Yerevan-Baku relations. According to Turkish media, Azerbaijan rejected Armenian proposals, insisting that all seven regions must be handed back. This position was reportedly endorsed by Ankara.
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