OSCE CHAIRMEN REPORT KOCHARIAN-ALIYEV MEETING DETAILS TO OSCE CHAIRMAN

Armenpress
September 2, 2005

BAKU, SEPTEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS: Yury Merzlyakov, the Russian
cochairman of the OSCE Minsk group, told an Azeri ANS agency that
after Kocharian-Aliyev meeting in Russian Kazan he and two other
cochairmen from USA and France left for Ljubljana to report the
meeting’s details to the OSCE chairman-in-office, Slovenia’s foreign
minister Dmitry Ruupel.

Asked to describe Kocharian-Aliyev meeting Merzlyakov said it was
‘good and useful.” “It was held in a good climate and the discussions
were detailed. The cochairmen have all grounds to feel satisfied and
I believe all other parties are likewise satisfied,” he was quoted
as saying.

Citing the confidentiality of the talks, Merzlyakov refused to say
whether new proposals were discussed by Kocharian and Aliyev. He also
said the cochairmen will work to organize a new meeting of Azeri and
Armenian foreign ministers before the end of 2005 and ‘before that
the two sides will have to ponder over what was negotiated and convey
their opinions to the cochairmen.”
From: Baghdasarian