AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER WAS NOT OFFERED TO MEET WITH HIS ARMENIAN COUNTERPART

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug. 28, 2006

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is attending in
"Caspian prospect-2008" international forum in the Slovenian capital,
Ljubljana, is expected to have bilateral meetings, Tahir Taghizadeh,
FM Press and Information Policy Department chief told the APA.

The Minister plans having talks with OSCE Chairman-in-Office & Belgium
Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht and US deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza.

Mammadyarov said that he has not been offered to meet with Armenian
Foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan.

The Foreign Ministers will address the international forum today.