BAKU: Official Blames Mediators For Stalling Talks

OFFICIAL BLAMES MEDIATORS FOR STALLING TALKS AzerNews Weekly July 23 2008 Azerbaijan A senior Azerbaijani official has blamed the OSCE mediators for delaying talks on settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict. "The co-chairs should be aware that the responsibility for the endless extension of peace talks and lack of any result rests with them," the head of the President's Office international relations department, Novruz Mammadov, told the Baku-based Ð~PТV channel. Mammadov said he hoped for more substantial steps to be taken by the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) co-chairs at their upcoming meeting in Moscow at the end of July. With regard to US co-chair Matthew Bryza's welcoming both conflicting sides' adherence to the peace process, Mammadov said this was a result of only Baku's proper stance. "As for... [read full story]