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Text of report by Azerbaijani TV station ANS on May 22. [Presenter] Taking into account that the Nagorno-Karabakh problem is our common problem, it is important to learn the population's view on the subject [the Karabakh Armenians' involvement in the peace talks]. Thus, the public in the capital does not see Nagorno-Karabakh as a party to the talks on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. [Unidentified man] Nagorno-Karabakh should stay within the Azerbaijani Republic and I therefore strongly object to this. [Two unidentified men] Strongly against, strongly. [Correspondent] Do you think it possible for Nagorno-Karabakh to participate in the talks as a third party? [Unidentified man] I do not think it is right to involve Nagorno-Karabakh as a third party to the talks. [Unidentified woman] I think that Nagorno-Karabakh cannot be involved in the talks as a third party. [Unidentified man] Nagorno-Karabakh does not have a status to be involved in the talks. [Unidentified man] There can be only two parties [to the talks]. [Unidentified man] A third side's involvement is impossible. [Unidentified man] In my view, Nagorno-Karabakh's participation in the process as a third party is absurd. [Presenter] Azerbaijani MPs do not see Nagorno-Karabakh a party to the talks on resolving the Karabakh conflict. [Ruling New Azerbaijan Party MP Anar Akhundzada, uncaptioned] Nagorno-Karabakh should never be involved as a third party. The parties are Armenia and Azerbaijan. [MP Mubariz Gurbanli, the ruling New Azerbaijan Party's Deputy Executive Secretary, uncaptioned] This is possible in the final stage of the talks. But it is impossible now. [Namus Party leader, MP Toghrul Ibrahimli, uncaptioned] I think that their involvement as a party to the talks is unnecessary and impossible today. [Civic Solidarity Party leader and MP Sabir Rustamkhanli, uncaptioned] Only on condition that Nagorno-Karabakh's Azerbaijani community participates in the talks as well. [People's Front of Azerbaijan Party MP Alimammad Nuriyev, uncaptioned] Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian and Azerbaijani communities can participate in the talks as interested parties, but, of course, it is unacceptable to involve them as independent parties. [Motherland Party Chairman, MP Fazail Aghamali, uncaptioned] In future both the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno-Karabakh can participate in the peace agreement process. [MP Vagif Samadoghlu, uncaptioned] It could be accepted if representatives of the Azerbaijani community participated in this. [Ruling New Azerbaijan Party MP Sayyad
Aran, uncaptioned] There is no
concrete reason for their involvement yet. Source: ANS TV, Baku, in Azeri 1600 gmt
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