Baku has rejected Armenian accusations that it is distorting the essence of the negotiations on the Karabakh conflict.
’The same document has been submitted to both sides and there can be no talk of errors,’ Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elkhan Polukhov said yesterday.
He was responding to remarks by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian at a meeting with the OSCE mediators in Paris on 16 March. Nalbandian told the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, ’The Azerbaijani side gives wrong information to the public about the meaning and content of the negotiations.’
’Minister Elmar Mammadyarov openly declared that the proposed written document had been accepted by the Azerbaijani side with some exceptions,’ Polukhov said.
He went on to say that if Armenia accepted the written document, known as the updated Madrid proposals, it should say so openly.
Commenting on Nalbandian’s remarks that resolution of the conflict would be impossible without the involvement of the community of Nagorno-Karabakh in the talks process, Polukhov said that Azerbaijan did not exclude the participation of both communities of Nagorno-Karabakh in the negotiating process at some stage, something that it had often stated. ’But this will be possible after the preliminary steps have been taken, the spokesman said.
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