ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN MOSCOW
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
5 Apr 06
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has arrived in Moscow on
a three-day visit within the framework of Year of Armenia in Russia,
ITAR-TASS news agency reported on 5 April. The agency quoted Russian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin as saying that ways to step
up economic cooperation between the constituent parts of the Russian
Federation and Armenia, joint antiterror efforts, collaboration in
international organizations and within the CIS, and Nagornyy Karabakh
settlement will be on the agenda of talks in Moscow.
As regards the Nagornyy Karabakh issue, Kamynin said Russia
“believes that the Armenian-Azerbaijani dialogue should be continued
at different levels, primarily at the level of the presidents of the
two countries”. “We proceed from the fact that the parties involved in
the conflict should themselves find a mutually acceptable solution,”
he said and added that Russia is ready to mediate both on a bilateral
basis and as a co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group and become a
guarantor of the reached agreements.