MEETING OF AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS WOULD BE A STEP TOWARDS SETTLING NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT – ARMENIAN PRIMER

TREND, Azerbaijan
Nov 16 2006

The meeting of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia would be a
step towards settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian
Prime Minister, Andranik Markaryan briefed the media on 15 November.

"The possibility of conducting the meeting would be a step forward
and would mean that the Foreign Ministers of the two countries have
agreed on certain topics," the Head of the Government stressed.

"Naturally more detailed discussions will take place at the time of
the meeting of the Presidents," Markaryan said, adding that "I would
welcome such a meeting".

During the recent meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan,
Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenia, Vardan Oskanyan in Brussels, the
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group offered to discuss the expediency
of the meeting of the Presidents of the two countries, Trend reports
with reference to News-Armenia.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry considered the negotiations which took
place between the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as constructive.