THE CONVERSATION OF KOCHARYAN AND ALIEV WAS NOT MADE PUBLIC

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[01:25 pm] 05 June, 2006

Yesterday Robert Kocharyan met Ilham Aliev in Romania.

The conversation lasted several hours. After the meeting the Presidents
did not meet the journalists and no information was given about the
course of negotiations.

The meeting took place in the Polish Embassy in Romania. The
negotiations about the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict
took place at the presence of the OSCE Chairman-in-office Karel de
Gucht, the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs, personal representative of the
OSCE CiO, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk and the Foreign Ministers of
Armenia and Azerbaijan. By the way, after the meeting the Presidents
took part in the supper together with the President of Romania.

Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliev may have another meeting today, and
the journalists hope that they will get information about the meeting
today during the Dialogue and Cooperation Black Sea Summit. Before
the summit Kocharyan is to meet OSCE Chairman-in-office Karel de
Gucht and the EU special envoy to South Caucasus.