Azerbaijan says it is still waiting for Armenia to accept the updated version of the Madrid principles for a settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
"Azerbaijan agreed on the updated version of the Madrid principles, and it is now Armenia’s turn," Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told ANS yesterday.
"But instead of agreeing, Armenia, in the person of Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, changes its mind hundreds of times a minute. In other words, they are avoiding giving their official position any way they can."
Polukhov was responding to comments about Azerbaijan, made by the Armenian foreign minister during a meeting with the OSCE chairman-in-office, Kanat Saudabayev, yesterday. Nalbandian said then that Azerbaijan had refused to accept the principles throughout 2009 and questioned Baku's sincerity in accepting the updated version of the principles.
Polukhov said Nalbandian's statement was vague and unfounded and intended for a domestic audience.
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