Azerbaijan, Armenia leaders discuss Karabakh conflict settlement
By Sevindzh Abdullayeva, Viktor Shulman

ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 16, 2005 Monday

BAKU, May 16 — Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilkham Aliyev
and Robert Kocharyan discussed Karabakh conflict settlement for more
than three hours in Warsaw on Sunday, Baku television networks report
from the Polish capital where the Council of Europe summit is held
on Monday.

At first, the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia had a tete-a-tete
meeting, then involving the co-chairmen of the Minsk OSCE group on
Nagorno Karabakh and the foreign ministers of Russia and France.
Aliyev and Kocharyan made no statements for the press after the talks.

However, after a Sunday meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan Ilkham Aliyev told journalists that “Azerbaijan’s
position in the Karabakh conflict settlement remains unchanged.”

“The sides continue negotiations,” Aliyev said, noting that “the
details of the talks are not disclosed under mutual agreements.”
Aliyev noted that he informed the Turkish premier on talks with the
Armenian president. The president voiced the hope that the Karabakh
problem will be solved peacefully as a result of the talks.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov who
participated in the talks told the Baku television network ANS
from Warsaw by phone that “no revolutionary breakthroughs in the
negotiating process were made, the sides discuss settlement issues
within the framework of “the Prague process.” “The Prague process”
is the talks between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia
that began in Prague in 2004.

Before that Aliyev and Kocharyan met at the CIS summit in Astana in
September 2004.