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21 June 2002 - 18:01 AMT

ARMENIAN AND AZERI LEADERS WANT ACHIEVE PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT IN NEAR FUTURE, WASHINGTON CONSIDERS

Washington considers that the Armenian and Azeri leaders want to achieve peaceful solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict via negotiations and are making efforts to reach it in the near future. US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ross Wilson said it in the interview to a number of Baku mass media. The diplomat denied the suppositions that the decision to inform official Teheran about the course of the negotiations after Key West was due to the fact that in the reality an agreement was reached on exchange of territories, as such a version directly concerns the Iranian interests. “Informing Iran was imposed by the fact that it is one of the main “actors” in the region,” – Wilson stated. Commenting on the reports of a number of mass media that USA puts pressure upon Azeri opposition to create conditions for Heydar Aliyev’s singing the peace accord proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, the Ambassador noted: “Either in Armenia or Azerbaijan they did not inform anyone except the governments about the details of the negotiations, so the opposition is hardly informed about the happening.”