OSKANYAN: ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS FAIL TO GIVE POSITIVE IMPULSE TO NK SETTLEMENT

Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 5 2006

Yerevan, June 5. /ARKA/. The Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents,
Robert Kocharyan and Ilkham Aliyev, failed to give a positive impulse
to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, RA Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan told reporters.

“The problem the Presidents tried to resolve in Rambouillet was not
resolved in Bucharest either despite the fact that during this period
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs proposed a number of new approaches
and wordings,” the Minister said.

According to Oskanyan, after the Bucharest meeting, both countries’
Foreign Ministers were instructed to continue the negotiations and
try to find new grounds for cooperation in settling the conflict
before the next possible meeting of the Presidents.

The Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents held a meeting in Bucharest
on June 4, 2006, as part of the Black Sea forum of Dialogue and
Partnership.

The previous meeting was held in Rambouillet, France, with the
participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and French President
Jacque Chirac, on February 10-11, 2006.