Azeri, Armenian leaders to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh in Moscow

BAKU, July 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is
leaving for Moscow on Friday to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh settlement with
his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan and then jointly with Russian
leader Dmitry Medvedev.
In early July Aliyev said one issue is out of question for his country
- the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Azerbaijan will not accept any decision that might envisage
separation, independence of Nagorno-Karabakh either today or in ten or a
hundred years," he said.
"Azerbaijan is ready to grant Nagorno-Karabakh the necessary
autonomous status but only within the united Azerbaijani state," he added.
"In the past five years we agreed on many important issues that seemed
hardly agreeable. However the principle of the negotiating process is such
that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed," Aliyev said.
This week the president said "inspiring dynamic and certain results"
have been achieved at talks with Armenia.
It will be the sixth bilateral meeting of the two presidents in the
past year and four of them were held in Russia.
The trilateral meeting with Medvedev is scheduled for Saturday.
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