OSKANIAN-MAMEDYAROV MEETING TAKES PLACE IN STRASBOURG

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 19 2006

STRASBOURG, MAY 19, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian’s meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mamedyarov on the issue of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement
took place in Strasbourg on May 18, with the presence of OSCE
Minsk Group Co-Chairmen Steven Mann, Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard
Fassier. Then the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan
continued the negotiations with the Co-Chairmen in a separate
format. The Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers’ meeting was
aimed to prepare the visit envasiged to be paid late in May to the
region at the level of Deputy Ministers of the Foreign Ministries
of Minsk Group Co-Chair countries U.S., Russia and France. As Noyan
Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information
Department, settlement principles and approaches put on the negotiation
table were discussed at the meeting. The Armenian side estimates the
meeting positive, in spite of the fact that there are still unsolved
and not agreed issues.