Azerbaijan's Aliyev pulls out of 会談 with Armenia and EU

Azerbaijani leader 減少(する)s out on eve of 会合 in Spain

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会談 were meant to try to 救助(する) peace 過程

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Aliyev upset with フラン, 手配中の,お尋ね者 Turkish presence - 明言する/公表する マスコミ

(追加するs Pashinyan 出席 in 3rd paragraph, South Caucasus 分析家 paragraphs 9-12, Turkish and US comment)

By 示す Trevelyan

Oct 4 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's 大統領 Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday pulled out of an EU-仲買人d 会合 with Armenian 総理大臣 Nikol Pashinyan, 取引,協定ing a blow to prospects for 救助(する)ing the peace 過程 between the two countries.

The 会合 had been 目的(とする)d at 妨げるing any その上の escalation and 回復するing 対話 after Azerbaijan last month 掴むd 支援する 支配(する)/統制する of a 地域 居住させるd by 民族の Armenians, 誘発するing more than 100,000 of them to 逃げる to Armenia.

Pashinyan, in need of support to 取り組む the resulting 人道的な 危機 and shore up his 戦闘の準備を整えた leadership, said he would still …に出席する Thursday's 会談 in Spain with EU 会議 大統領 Charles Michel and the leaders of フラン and Germany.

But Azerbaijan's 明言する/公表する-run APA news 機関, 特記する/引用するing 無名の sources, said Aliyev had decided not to go.

It said Aliyev had 手配中の,お尋ね者 his 同盟(する) Turkey to be 代表するd at the 会合, but that フラン and Germany had 反対するd, and said that Baku felt "an anti-Azerbaijani atmosphere" had developed の中で the 会合's 可能性のある 関係者s.

A source in Aliyev's 行政 確認するd to Reuters that the 大統領,/社長 would not go, but said he was 用意が出来ている to talk instead in a three-way 判型 with Pashinyan and the EU's Michel.

Aliyev's 軍隊s 機動力のある a 雷 不快な/攻撃 last month to 奪い返す 支配(する)/統制する of Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh 地域, whose 民族の Armenian 全住民 had broken away in a war in the 1990s. Aliyev said his "アイロンをかける 握りこぶし" had 回復するd his country's 主権,独立.

Karabakh has been the 焦点(を合わせる) of two wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the past 30 years and they have yet to 調印(する) a peace 条約, a 仕事 made more 緊急の by the 最新の 危機.

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Olesya Vartanyan, South Caucasus 分析家 at the 非,不,無-利益(をあげる) International 危機 Group which 作品 to 信管を取り除く 全世界の 衝突s, said Aliyev's no-show was a big 後退.

"It was very important for him to come, after this 軍の 操作/手術 in Nagorno-Karabakh, to recommit to the (peace) 過程 with the 介入 of the European Union and the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs," she said.

Vartanyan said 助言者s to Pashinyan and Aliyev had met French, German and EU 公式の/役人s in Brussels last week to 準備する for the 会談 in Spain and 避ける surprises or 誤解s.

She said experience had shown that the chances of 衝突/不一致s on the ground were higher at moments when the two 味方するs stopped talking. 優れた 二国間の/相互の 問題/発行するs 含む how to define their 株d 国境 and 再開する 輸送(する) links that have been 厳しいd by 10年間s of 衝突.

Azerbaijan's APA 機関 said Aliyev's 決定/判定勝ち(する) not to …に出席する was partly 誘発するd by "プロの/賛成の-Armenian 声明s" by French 公式の/役人s and フラン's 決定/判定勝ち(する), 発表するd on Tuesday, to 供給(する) Yerevan with 軍の 器具/備品.

Azerbaijan's foreign 省 also 非難するd what it said were unfounded comments on Wednesday by French 外務大臣 Catherine Colonna.

Colonna told a 議会の 審理,公聴会 that フラン was not looking to 増大する the 危機, but that it was normal to continue 防御の 武器s sales to Yerevan when "Azerbaijan has never stopped arming itself to carry out 不快な/攻撃 活動/戦闘s".

The EU must send a (疑いを)晴らす signal that any 脅しs to Armenia's 領土の 正直さ are 容認できない, said Colonna, who visited Pashinyan on Tuesday.

"I repeat, any 活動/戦闘 in this direction would give rise to 強健な reactions," she said.

APA said Azerbaijan would not …に出席する any 未来 会談 that 含むd フラン.

Omer Celik, 広報担当者 for Turkish 大統領 Tayyip Erdogan's 判決,裁定 AK Party, 支援するd Aliyev's 決定/判定勝ち(する) to shun the 会談.

"Mr Aliyev cancelled his Spain visit because the 条件 of Turkey's 参加 was not 受託するd. We admire this," he said.

U.S. 上院議員 Ben Cardin, chairman of the Foreign Relations 委員会, said Washington should 保留する 安全 援助 to Azerbaijan and 持つ/拘留する it accountable for what he called its "連係させた, intentional (選挙などの)運動をする of 民族の 洗浄するing" in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijan 否定するs 民族の 洗浄するing, 説 the Armenians were not 軍隊d to leave and would enjoy 十分な 市民の 権利s if they stayed. But many of those who fled said they did not 信用 that 約束, given the

血まみれの history

between the two peoples. (付加 報告(する)/憶測ing by Nailia Bagirova, Andrew Osborn, John Irish, Tuvan Gumrukcu, Doina Chacu and Paul 認める; 令状ing by 示す Trevelyan Editing by Gareth Jones)

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