AZG Armenian Daily #076, 28/04/2005

Karabakh issue

MINSK GROUP TO INTERROGATE MAMEDIAROV IN FRANKFURT

The OSCE Minsk group co-chairs were to meet the Azerbaijani foreign minister
within the framework of Prague Process in Frankfurt, April 27.

The Minsk group stated in London on April 15 that the next meeting of
Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers will take place on April 27. Russian
co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov told Azeri ANS TV on April 26 that “the co-chairs
will meet Armenia’s foreign minister somewhere in Europe after the Frankfurt
meeting”.

Hamlet Gasparian, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, told daily Azg
that there was no agreement of a meeting between Oskanian and the Minsk
group. Gasparian said that no place and date for that meeting was specified.

Deputy foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Araz Azimov, stated the day after
tomorrow that “recently Oskanian avoids meetings” and explained that
“official Yerevan is unable to find counterarguments to Azerbaijan’s
logical, objective and practical suggestions”.

By Tatoul Hakobian