PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV MEETS WITH HIS ARMENIAN COUNTERPART
[May 16, 2005, 12:59:59]

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
May 16 2005

On May 15 visiting Warsaw Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan
and Robert Kocharyan of Armenia met at the Belvedere palace in the
presence of the OSCE Minsk group Co-chairs, and Foreign Ministers
Sergey Lavrov of Russia and Michel Barnier of France.

Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenian as well as the co-chairs
reported to the Heads of State on the results of the peace talks to
find solution to the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
within the Prague process.

Afterwards, the Presidents continued their meeting in private.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov has
briefed journalists the three-hour meeting had focused on some details
concerning the conflict settlement. ‘Despite certain progress has
been reached, there is still a need to further discuss some matters
of principle,’ he said.

The Minister added that after the meeting the Presidents have
commissioned the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia to
continue negotiating some important issues other than those agreed
within the Prague process. According to him, the Co-chairs will
also continue their activities and share their views within the next
few months. ‘Generally, no format of the talks but their result is
important for Azerbaijan, in other words, territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan must be restored,’ the Minister said.