RA FM TO LEAVE FOR PARIS TO MEET AZERI COLLEAGUE

DeFacto, Armenia
June 12 2006

June 13 RA FM Vardan Oskanyan will leave for Paris to meet with
his Azeri colleague Elmar Mammadyarov. While talking to journalists
Armenian FM stated the meeting’s agenda has not been determined yet,
REGNUM correspondent reports.

To remind, June 8 Vardan Oskanyan said RA and AR FMs’ meeting for
the conduct of the Nagorno Karabakh talks might be held in the near
future. However, he noted there was no information on a recurrent
meeting to be held between the two countries’ Presidents Robert
Kocharyan and Ilham Aliyev. “The date of a recurrent meeting between
the two countries’ heads will be known after our meeting”, Vardan
Oskanyan remarked.

According to RA FM, the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs are not expected
to put forward new proposals on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
settlement. “Unfortunately, the parties failed to work out an
agreement in the course of the talks in Bucharest, despite new
proposals repeatedly submitted by the mediators, being disapproved by
the parties. After the Presidents’ meeting in Rambouillet (France)
the document that was on the bargaining table has undergone
alternations and enlarged from one page to two and a half. Some
items, formulations have been extended, however, the essence and
stands are unchangeable. The issues being discussed by the Presidents
are complicated, but they can be settled only via negotiations. The
dialogue should be continued, there is no alternative to the talks”,
Vardan Oskanyan stated.