FM VARDAN OSKANIAN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE UN SESSION

ArmRadio.am
06.09.2006 11:00

RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian will leave for New York to
participate in the UN session. The Minister told the journalists that
his speech at the session is scheduled September 25. He informed
also that he will have a number of bilateral meetings with his
counterparts. Vardan Oskanian underlined that he is not scheduled to
meet with US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minks Group Matthew Bryza, but such
a meeting is not ruled out.

Turning to the Azeri initiative to have the question of fires at the
contact line be included in the agenda of the sitting, Vardan Oskanyan
declared that it is the right of Baku. The Minister noted that the
issue might be discussed in the framework of the OSCE parliamentary
Assembly, especially considering that the UN can do no more than the
OSCE. "I tin that only Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan can discuss
and resolve the question of fires. I do believe that involvement of
the UN is not proper here. The most proper structure for considering
the issue is the OSCE, the Minister declared.

Vardan Oskanian did not rule out the opportunity of including
the questioning the agenda. The minister reported also that he has
received a letter from the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel de Gucht,
in which he suggests sending a mission to the inflammation zones. "We
have already responded that we no problem here. We are satisfied with
assessment of the fires at the contact line by Personal Representative
of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

However, Azerbaijan is not happy with the report," Vardan Oskanian
declared.