BAKU. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Baku mostly approves of the updated Karabakh settlement principles, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told a Monday press briefing following negotiations with OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Kazakh State Secretary - Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
"The updated settlement principles, which the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen put forward in Athens, are acceptable," he said.
"We generally acknowledge these principles but there are certain aspects that require further coordination," Mamedyarov said.
He said he had recently spoken to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who said that Armenia had not commented on the updated principles yet.
The status quo in the Karabakh settlement process is impermissible, Mamedyarov said. "The notions of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'occupied lands' are not acceptable if we develop a normal relationship within the OSCE framework," he said.