Russia to arrange Azeri-Armenia summit toward Karabakh settlmnt
By Sevindzh Abdullayeva, Viktor Shulman

ITAR-TASS News Agency
September 9, 2004 Thursday

BAKU, September 9 — The latest events in the North Caucasus
showed again that “it is necessary to look for the solution to the
long-standing regional conflicts and to avoid new ones”, Russian
ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolai Ryabov who is concluding his tour
of duty in this Transcaucasian republic, told a news conference in
Baku on Thursday.

Ryabov believes that the whole of the Caucasus may come to grief
through ignoring these factors. He said the Russian side now makes
efforts to arrange the meeting of the Azeri and Armenian presidents,
Ilkham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan, at the upcoming CIS summit in
Astana to discuss the ways of settling the Karabakh conflict. Ryabov
said the meeting might take place in a trilateral format, with the
participation of the Russian president.