Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Jan 22 2005

FM Dismisses Reports on Meeting of Azeri, Armenian Presidents

Foreign Minster Elmar Mammadyarov, in an interview with ANS TV,
dismissed the reports saying that Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents
Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian are expected to meet in Warsaw,
Poland in May.

He said, however, that the two countries’ foreign ministers will meet
in late February-early March and everything will depend on this
meeting.

The reports released earlier quoted the Council of Europe (CE)
Committee on Foreign Relations as saying that the next meeting of the
two presidents, initiated by the OSCE Minsk Group, would allegedly
take place on May 16 as part of the third summit of leaders of CE
member states.