BAKU TODAY, Azerbaijan
May 20 2006

Vardan Oskanian Gives Positive Assessment of Meeting with Elmar
Mamedyarov

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian is happy with the results
of his meeting with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov in
Strasbourg where they discussed ways to settle the Karabakh conflict,
the press office of Armenia’s Foreign Ministry reports.

“Armenia positively assesses the results of this meeting, though some
questions remain unsolved,” the press-office reports.

On May 18 in Strasbourg the two ministers discussed “main principles
and perspectives” of the problem’s settlement, Armenia’s Foreign
Ministry reports.

The ministers also discussed questions connected with the May 25- 26
visit of the OSCE Minsk Group’s three cochairmen from France, Russia
and USA to the Karabakh conflict region. Previously, the cochairmen
stated that they had new ideas for settlement of the conflict, and
they would inform the countries about these ideas.

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry did not comment on the results of
Strasbourg meeting.