RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DENIES MOSCOW PLANNING TO PRESSUREBAKU.

Russian first deputy foreign minister Igor Ivanov toldAzerbaijan’s ambassador in Moscow Ramiz Rezayev that Moscow hadno plans to use economic or other means to force Baku to changeits position on the status of the Caspian Sea, Moscow radio reportedJuly 28. The denial came after a widely-quoted leak from a seniorRussian foreign ministry official claiming that Moscow plannedto do precisely that.

Baku Ready to Make Peace if Armenia Returns Lands.