Nagorno-Karabakh settlement to be discussed

ITAR-TASS News Agency
October 5, 2006 Thursday

The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, Elmar Mamedyarov and
Vartan Oskanyan, on Thursday arrived in Moscow to discuss matters of
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.

The meeting will be held on Friday, October 6, at the Russian Foreign
Ministry with the participation of Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei
Lavrov, a Russian diplomat told Itar-Tass.

"It is not accidental that Moscow has been chosen as the venue of the
trilateral meeting, as Moscow historically played an important role
in the Transcaucasia, specifically, in the solution of the problem
of Nagorno-Karabakh," said the source. He said the quest for new ways
of settling the Karabakh conflict would be central to the trilateral
meeting.

"The parties are striving to find acceptable, mutually advantageous
ways in the matter and pin much hope on the Moscow meeting," the
diplomat said.

The arrangement to hold the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
foreign ministers in Moscow was reached as a result of the meetings
the co-chairmen of the Minsk group of the OSCE for Nagorno-Karabakh
(representatives of Russia, France and United States) held in Baku and
Yerevan, Yuri Merzlyakov, the Russian co-chairman of the Minsk group,
said earlier.