BAKU: Azeri, Armenian Probable To Meet Under G8 Summit – FM Mammadya

AZERI, ARMENIAN PROBABLE TO MEET UNDER G8 SUMMIT – FM MAMMADYAROV
Author: R.Abdullayev

TREND, Azerbaijan
June 27 2007

A meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents in St-Petersburg
under the forthcoming summit of G8 is not ruled out, Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, told journalists.

However, prior to summit the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Matthew
Bryza plans to tour the region. "Only after the visit the co-chairs’
position will be cleared up, while a meeting of the Foreign Ministers
will determine the conduct of a new meeting of the heads of state.,"
Mammadyarov underlined.

Besides, a frame agreement, some details of which were publicized by
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs were very actual.

The document reflected issues on the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh.

"However, it is necessary to resolve conceptual issues. If sides
come to an agreement peaceable co-resistance of the two communities
of Nagorno-Karabakh, the question will be discussed. Undoubtedly,
Nagorno-Karabakh should have a status. It is still to define whether
it will be similar to the status that Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic,
or Tatarstan, or Bashkordistan holds. It all will be topic of future
discussions," the Azerbaijani FM announced.