AZERI AND ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS TO DISCUSS NAGORNO-KARABAKH ISSUE IN PARIS








BAKU, March 3. /RIA Novosti correspondent Gerai Dadashev/. Azerbaijan's President Geydar Aliyev on Saturday left for France, where with French President Jacque Chirac acting as a broker he will have negotiations with Armenia's President Robert Kocharyan on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The conflict revolves around the fact that Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region populated with Armenians declared itself an independent republic. The force used by Azerbaijan yielded no results. For several years now efforts have been made to resolve the issue politically.


	The aim of the talks is to reach "some kind of agreement on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Aliyev said at Bina airport, replying to questions by journalists. He said he was prepared to meet Kocharyan "if necessary two, three or four times". 


	Aliyev reaffirmed the Azeri leadership's readiness to give Nagorno-Karabakh "the highest degree of self-determination".