ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS AGREE TO CONTINUE CONSULTATIONS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 24 2006

PARIS, OCTOBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting of the Armenian Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian and the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mamedyarov under the aegis of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs took
place in Paris on October 24.

According to the RA MFA Press and Information Department, during
the negotiations in a positive atmosphere, the sides continued the
discussion of new ideas and thoughts that the co-chairs proposed at
the Moscow meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers
on October 6 of this year. An agreement was reached to continue the
negotiations at the level of foreign ministers in order to clarify the
positions additionally. It is envisaged to hold the next meeting in
Brussels on November 14, 2006, within the framework of the Armenia-EU
Cooperation Council. On the same day V. Oskanian was received by the
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy.