Karabakh talks will be "decisive" - Azeri leader

BAKU Nov 21 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan sees talks on Sunday with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as "decisive" and retains the right to use military force if negotiations continue to produce no result, Azeri leader Ilham Aliyev said.

"That meeting must play a decisive role in the process of negotiations," Aliyev said late on Friday, in comments broadcast by state television on Saturday.

"If that meeting ends without result, then our hopes in negotiations will be exhausted and then we are left with no other option," he said, saying Azerbaijan had the right to use force to take back the mountain region. (Reporting by Lada Yevgrashina; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Louise Ireland)