AZERI, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS TO MEET EARLY DECEMBER

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Sept 29 2005

Baku, September 28, AssA-Irada
The next meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers
focusing on ways of peacefully settling the Upper Garabagh conflict
may be held in Slovenia early in December.

The Garabagh conflict is to be discussed at a meeting of the OSCE
council of foreign ministers in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana
December 5-6, deputy foreign minister and the President’s special envoy
on the Upper Garabagh conflict Araz Azimov said. The two countries’
foreign ministers are expected to hold a tete-a-tete meeting as part
of the event. Co-chairs of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group are due to
visit the region prior to the ministers’ meeting, Azimov said.

“The issue was discussed at the OSCE meeting yesterday. A final
decision was not made in this respect, but the co-chairs’ visit
is expected on the eve of the parliamentary elections”, the deputy
foreign minister said.

Azerbaijan’s legislative poll is due on November 6.*