KOCHARYAN AND ALIEV TO MEET

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[11:53 am] 23 November, 2006

On November 22 Yuri Mezlyakov and Bernard Fassier, the Co-Chairs of
the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement,
met with Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan. The latter agreed
to meet with his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharyan during the
meeting with the Co-Chairs.

Reminder: on November 21 the Co-Chairs met with Robert Kocharyan and
the latter also agreed to meet with Ilham Aliev.

The next meeting of the two presidents is scheduled on November 28 in
the framework of the meeting of the CIS memebr countries’ heads. The
venue of the meeting will be Minsk.

In this conncetion a striking article appeared in "Nezavisimaya Gazeta"
newspaper on the Karabakh issue.

Citing the diplomatic sources, the newspaper writes that according
to the draft framework agreement which is still under consideration
in the negotiation procedure, "Armenia will return the seven occupied
territories to Azerbaijan, and Karabakh will be united with Armenia via
40-kilometer corridor". This corridor will be guided by peacekeepers,
"Nezavisimaya Gazeta" reports.

It is also supposed that Armenia will take its troops from Azerbaijan,
the refugees will return to their permamnent dwelling places, the
economic and diplomatic ties between the two countries will be resumed
and a referendum will be held to state the NKR status.