ROBERT KOCHARIAN AND ILHAM ALIYEV MET IN WARSAW

Pan Armenian News
16.05.2005 02:52

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian and Azeri Presidents Robert Kocharian and
Ilham Aliyev met in Warsaw on May 15, Mediamax agency reports. Upon
completion of the meeting the leaders made no statement for the
press. First the meeting was held in presence of Sergey Lavrov,
Michel Barnier, Vartan Oskanian and Elmar Memedyarov – the Ministers
of Foreign Affairs of Russia, France, Armenia and Azerbaijan – as well
as the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs. Later Robert Kocharian and Ilham
Aliyev continued the talks in private for about 2 hours. Russian FM
Sergey Lavrov refrained from commenting on the Presidents’ meeting. “I
cannot comment on the issues which are the subject of negotiations
between the Armenian and Azeri Presidents”, he noted. According to
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, Robert Kocharian and
Ilham Aliyev discussed with the Russian and French FMs the outcomes
of the Prague process. At the same time, Elmar Mamedyarov added,
the Presidents did not consider any precise program of the Karabakh
conflict settlement. “The most complicated problems are the details. We
succeeded in achieving agreement on many questions, however there
are issues on which the positions of the states disaccord greatly”,
the Azeri FM said. He also expressed hope that the meeting of Robert
Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev “will allow re-examining the results
achieved earlier.”