BAKU, March 16, 2004. (RIA Novosti) - Azerbaijan and Armenia have to make the main efforts to settle the Nagorny Karabakh problem, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev told reporters after his meeting on Tuesday with the incumbent chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Solomon Pasi.
"The OSCE plays the role of a mediator in this process today," underscored Mr. Guliyev.
He noted that in the course of the meeting with Mr. Pasi the role of the OSCE in settling the Nagorny Karabakh problem was discussed.
Apart from that, they discussed the problems of democratic reforms in Azerbaijan, the preparations for the municipal elections in the fall of 2004, the events of October 15-17, 2003 in Baku (during the presidential elections, the opposition organized several unsanctioned protests) and freedom of the press in Azerbaijan.
