AzerTag, Azerbaijan State Info Services
Aug 24 2005

TALKS ON PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN CONFLICT CONTINUED
IN MOSCOW
[August 24, 2005, 17:38:31]

On August 24, in a private residence of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Russia passed bilateral negotiations between the Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan with participation of
co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group from Russia, the USA and France.
The meeting has taken place with assistance of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with participation of
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov.

Upon completion of negotiations, the head of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Russia of S. Lavrov, the head of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Azerbaijan of E. Mammadyarov and the head of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Armenia of V. Oskanyan have briefed for press.

S. Lavrov informed that the meeting of heads of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Armenia with participation of
co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group today has taken place. `It is
considered that at this meeting the further progress in negotiating
process on settlement of the conflict will be achieved. From our part
as organizers, we shall try to make everything that it was
comfortable to work for participants of negotiations in normal
conditions. At present, negotiations proceed with participation of
co-chairmen of OSCE MG which, undoubtedly, have some ideas, but about
them it is prematurely to speak’, has noted S. Lavrov.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov, in turn,
has thanked the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the
conditions created for negotiating, and also co-chairmen of OSCE,
which have arrived to Moscow for participation in negotiating
process. E. Mammadyarov has declared: `The basic theme of
negotiations was preparation of a meeting of presidents of Azerbaijan
and Armenia which will take place on August 27 this year in Kazan. We
have discussed, how this meeting will pass at the Summit, and in what
format’. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan
said: `As a whole, negotiations go ahead, there is a hope that we
together with the Armenian side will find the general positions to
bring peace and stability to region’.

V. Oskanyan also has confirmed that all questions of the agenda are
discussed, and now it is early to speak about details of negotiating
process. `Negotiations are underway, the question of preparation of
the meeting of heads of our states in Kazan was discussed’, he noted.

In negotiations took part also the deputy foreign minister of
Azerbaijan Araz Azimov, the head of OSCE Monitoring Group Andrzei
Kaspshik and other officials of Russia and Armenia.