‘Erdogan-Kocharyan meeting not certain’

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
May 6 2005

Armenian’s Foreign Minister has played down suggestions that the
Armenian head of state Robter Kocharyan and Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold an informal meeting in the near future.

May 6- No official proposals have been made, Oskanyan said. Commenting
on suggestions from Ankara that a meeting might take place in Poland,
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan said late Thursday that
nothing had been confirmed on the matter.

Reports in the media on a meeting between the Turkish premier
and Kocharyan were based on an indirect proposal from Ankara and
presumptions made by the journalists, Oskanyan said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul raised the possibility of a
meeting between Erdogan and Kocharyan on Thursday, saying there was
nothing planned but that it was possible informal talks could take
place in Warsaw.