RF diplomat, EU envoy for S Caucasus discuss Transcaucasia status
By Sergei Bushuyev

ITAR-TASS News Agency
June 3, 2005 Friday

MOSCOW, June 3 — Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Valery
Loshchinin and Special Representative of the European Union for
South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie met on Friday to discuss the current
situation in the Transcaucasian region, an official at the Russian
Foreign Ministry said.

The sides exchanged opinions on the situation in the Transcaucasian
region and on settlement of conflicts in Georgia’s much-troubled
region of South Ossetian and the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorny
Karabakh in Azerbaijan, the official said.

Loshchinin and Heikki Talvitie “confirmed commitment to continuing
cooperation with the countries of the Transcaucasian region and to
peaceful political settlement,” the official added.