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PRESS RELEASE

24-08-2005

Foreign Minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian meets Foreign Minister of
Azerbaijan Elmar Mamedyarov

On August 24 a meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers of Armenia and
Azerbaijan Vartan Oskanian and Elmar Mamedyarov on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict resolution, took place in the special residence of the Russian
Foreign Ministry with the participation of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri
Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (USA), Bernard Fassier (France) and Andrzej
Kasprzyk, personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-office.

During the meeting within the framework of the Prague process, the Ministers
discussed all aspects of a peace process, which are to be presented during
the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled for the
end of this week in Kazan, Tatarstan.

Informal discussions of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of Armenia and
Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution continued during
lunch with the presence of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.