Armenian, Azerbaijani foreign ministers to discuss Karabakh Fri

ITAR-TASS News Agency
October 5, 2006 Thursday

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov and his Armenian
counterpart Vartan Oskanian will meet in Moscow on Friday to discuss
the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.

A diplomatic source in Moscow has said the meeting will take place
at the Russian Foreign Ministry, with the chief Russian diplomat,
Sergei Lavrov taking part.

"Moscow was chosen as the venue of the trilateral meeting for a good
reason. Russia has historically played a major role in Transcaucasia
and in efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem," the source
said.

The co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk group for Nagorno-Karabakh, Yuri
Merzlyakov, earlier said the agreement on Armenian-Azerbaijani talks
in Moscow at the foreign minister level was achieved at negotiations
the Minsk group co-chairmen (Russia, France and the United States)
had held in Baku and Yerevan.