AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
March 17 2005

Azerbaijani, Armenian presidents may meet in Moscow May 9

The meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents, scheduled as part
of the Council of Europe summit in Warsaw on May 16-17, may take
place earlier – on May 9.

Both President Aliyev and Armenian President Robert Kocharian have
been invited to Moscow to attend the festivities dedicated to the
60th anniversary of victory over fascism, the Russian co-chair of the
OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov said. The two countries’ foreign
ministers may not meet prior to the presidents’ meeting.
“We [OSCE MG co-chairs] may meet with the two countries’ foreign
ministers beforehand separately. We have held talks with Minister
Mammadyarov in Prague, while our meeting with Minister Oskanian is
likely to take place when the OSCE fact-finding mission presents its
report to the Permanent Council in Vienna on March 17.”
The OSCE mission visited the occupied Azeri territories in February
to look into the illegal settlement of Armenians there.