Oskanian arrives in Moscow for Karabakh talks

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
January 23, 2007 Tuesday

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian is staying on a working
visit to Moscow, the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry
told Interfax on Tuesday.

The minister is expected to hold talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov during
the visit, the press service said.

Talks will be held at the initiative of international mediators,
co-chairmen of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) Minsk Group from Russia, France and the United States.

Earlier, Armenian President Robert Kocharian stated that the Karabakh
settlement talks "will stand by" until Armenia is through with its
parliamentary elections scheduled for May 2007.

The statement does not mean the termination of talks, Oskanian said.
"We will continue our efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
as it was before," he said at a press conference in January.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress