ROBERT KOCHARYAN: IT SEEMS NO AGREEMENT ON RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT WILL BE THIS YEAR

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Nov 7 2006

"The year 2006 is a year of opportunities, since there were no
elections either in Armenia or Azerbaijan", Robert Kocharyan, President
of Armenia, said at the meeting with the Armenian community of Astana.

Kazakh Mass Media reports that President Kocharyan pointed out that
Armenian side tried to actively conduct negotiations with Azeri
side on resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but, unfortunately,
no success was achieved.

The President said that Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan
recently held a meeting on finding the ways to resolve the conflict.

The President admits a possibility of meeting with President Alyev in
Minsk in the end of November but it much depends upon the results of
the Foreign Ministers’ meeting. "There is nothing definite about it
yet. The latest meetings with President Alyev weren’t optimistic and
it seems no agreement will be reached this year either", concluded
President Kocharyan.
From: Baghdasarian