ELMAR MAMMADYAROV PARTICIPATES IN 14TH MEETING OF OSCE FOREIGN MINISTERS’ COUNCIL

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Dec 4 2006

Today, Brussels hosts the 14th annual meeting of OSCE Foreign
Ministers’ Council, APA reports.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov participates in the
meeting which will last for two days and problem of OSCE reforms
and Kazakhstan’s bid for the OSCE chairmanship will be discussed
in the meeting. It should be noted that, Kazakhstan’s chairmanship
was supported in the CIS Summit three years ago. Kazakhstan Embassy
in Azerbaijan told the APA that, at present, Kazakhstan President
Nursultan Nazarbayev is in official visit in Brussels. If Kazakhstan’s
chairmanship is supported, it will be the first country in CIS to
chair this Organisation. Within the meeting, Azerbaijani and Armenian
Foreign Ministers will meet with the participation of OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs. The meeting of the ministers was agreed at the meeting
of Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan which took place in
Minsk on November 28.

It should be noted that, it is also planned to hold the meeting of the
GUAM Foreign Ministers. Protracted problems in GUAM territory will
also be discussed in the meeting. According the information spread
by Russia mass media Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will make
speech in the meeting. Russia doubts to adopt Russia declaration,
because the positions on frozen conflicts differ. Moscow considers that
if the document containing the main principles of regulation of frozen
conflicts in OSCE is adopted, it would help regulation processes.