March 3, 2001 - 19:26 AMT
AZERI PRESIDENT THREATENS OSCE WITH A WAR
YEREVAN, March 3. /Mediamax/. "I really wish Armenian President to take a constructive position at the upcoming Parisian meeting on March 4-5", President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev declared at the meeting with the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana.
Aliyev once again proved the intentions of the Azeri leadership to settle the conflict in a peaceful way, despite the fact that after the discussion of this question in Milli Majlis the Azeri public "gives much preference to the military settlement of the conflict". "And this can be understood. Historically, force against force has always been applied and a large liberation movement has spread against aggression. But I, as the head of the Azerbaijani state, declare that there are still enough possibilities for a peaceful settlement of the dispute. And these possibilities are first of all concentrated in the hands of the Minsk Group, its co-chairs. Naturally, Armenian and Azeri leaderships also have these possibilities. Azerbaijan has taken a constructive position, yet we cannot fulfil all of Armenia's demands", Heydar Aliyev said. --0--