Armenian minister notes ‘certain progress’ in Paris talks on Karabakh

Interfax
June 18 2005

Yerevan, 17 June: Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Vardan
Oskanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov discussed in Paris on Friday [17 June]
a number of issues related to the current stage of the settlement of
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, the Armenia Foreign Ministry press
service has told Interfax.

The co-chairmen of the [OSCE] Minsk Group for the settlement of
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict attended the ministers’ meeting,
the report said.

“A certain progress has been achieved in one of the main issues of
the Karabakh settlement,” Oskanyan said.

The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers have held a series of
talks for a settlement of the conflict since the second half of the
year 2004 which is known as the Paris process.