ARMENIAN PM BELIEVES AZERBAIJAN LOST ITS CHANCE IN BUCHAREST

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 15 2006

After the meeting of Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Bucharest a necessity appeared
to carry out new steps towards Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement,
which are still being taken, Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan
has said talking to the press.

As a REGNUM correspondent quotes him as saying that foreign ministers
of the two countries are trying now to achieve what the presidents
failed to achieve in Bucharest. "There was a good chance of progress
in Bucharest, but the Azerbaijani party failed to snatch this
opportunity," the prime minister noted. Speaking on dismissal of the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chair from the US, as well as on soon replacement
of the US ambassador to Armenia, Andranik Margaryan noted that it
was the country’s internal affair.