Azeri, Armenia FM to meet in Moscow over Karabakh settlement
By Sevindzh Abdullayeva and Viktor Shulman

ITAR-TASS News Agency
July 18, 2005 Monday 12:19 PM Eastern Time

BAKU, July 18 – Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Elmar
Mamedyarov and Vartan Oskanyan, will meet in Moscow on August 23
as part of the Council of CIS Foreign Ministers, Azerbaijani Deputy
Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Azimov said the results of
the Mamedyarov-Oskanyan meeting in Moscow would be a key condition
for the talks between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in
Kazan on August 26 as part of the CIS summit.

Azimov, who is also the president’s special envoy for the
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, stressed, “The talks face many problems.
The sides’ positions vary.” In his words, during the previous talks,
Azerbaijan “did its best to work in a constructive atmosphere in
order to search for different ways of the settlement.”

“Now chances are very high for resolving the Karabakh problem,” the
Azerbaijani diplomat said. He called on Armenia to use this chance.
“The delay of the conflict doesn’t meet its interests,” he added.

Azimov emphasised, “It is impossible to determine Nagorno-Karabakh’s
status without Azerbaijan because our joint settlement efforts help us
comply with the norms of international law and democratic principles.”