ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: HOPES ARE HIGH FOR DEAL ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH

Associated Press Worldstream
December 4, 2006 Monday 11:50 AM GMT

Armenia’s foreign minister said Monday hopes are high for a
lasting solution to the simmering conflict in Azerbaijan’s disputed
Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Vardan Oksanian told a meeting of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe that last week’s meeting of presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan "gives hope that agreement is possible even
on the most problematic issues on which we don’t see eye to eye."