KOCHARIAN-ALIYEV MEETING WITHOUT COMMENT
By Aghavni Harutyunian in Minsk

AZG Armenian Daily
29/11/2006

As it was expected, RA President Robert Kocharian met yesterday his
Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev within the framework of the CIS
summit in Minsk. This was the third meeting this year. Kocharian
and Aliyev did not take part in the press conference following
the summit, as they were scheduled to meet at the Russian Embassy
to Belarus. The presidents together with their foreign ministers
Oskanian and Mamedyarov first met OSCE Minsk group co-chairs Yuri
Merzlyakov, Matthew Bryza and Bernard Fassier as well as OSCE
Chairman-in-Office and Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht and
his special representative Andrzej Kasprzyk. Afterwards, in accordance
with general meeting format, Kocharian and Aliyev behind-closed-doors
meeting lasting two and a half hours took place. Kocharian left
for Yerevan right after the meeting yesterday. In essence, it is
impossible to assess in any way the productivity of the presidents’
meeting, as the results of the negotiations remained as covered by
fog as was Minsk yesterday.