DELEGATION LED BY ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ARRIVED IN MINSK

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Nov 28 2006

A delegation led by Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has arrived
in Minsk.

ArmInfo’s special correspondent reports from the capital of Belarus
that in the afternoon local time the meeting of CIS President will
get underway. Then an enlarged meeting will take place. Armenia will
be represented at the enlarged meeting by Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan, Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham Gharibjanyan and Ambassador
of Armenia to Belarus Oleg Yesayan.

Approximately at 4pm local time (6pm Yerevan time), Armenian President
Robert Kocharyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev are to
meet at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Minsk.

The foreign ministers of the two states, Vardan Oskanyan and Elmar
Mammedyarov, Foreign Minister of RF Sergey Lavrov, OSCE CIO, Belgian
Foreign Minister Carel de Gucht, as well as OSCE CIO PR for Nagorny
Karabakh, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, will attend the presidential
meeting. Then, Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliyev will meet vis-a-
vis. The Armenian delegation headed by President Kocharyan will return
to Armenia after the negotiations.