ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTIAL MEETING POSSIBLE IN NEAR FUTURE

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 3 2006

YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. A meeting between the Armenian and
Azerbaijani Presidents is possible in the near future, OSCE Minsk Group
Co-Chair Bernad Fassier told reporters in Yerevan He expressed hope
that the meetings of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign Ministers
will lay the foundation for this meeting, and it will be held after
the negotiations results have been summed up.

According to Fassier, even with 1% probability of a favorable outcome,
the OSCE MG Co-Chairs must exert every effort to resolve the protracted
conflict.

Fassier sees a number of hope-inspiring factors of a favorable outcome
of the negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh: the appointment of Matthew
Bryza as US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, new approaches involving
this appointment, and the OSCE MG Co-Chairs’ resolution to continue
forming new approaches to the settlement.

The Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers are to meet in Moscow
on October 6, 2006.