ARMENIAN FM TO MEET OSCE MEDIATORS
AssA-Irada, Azerbaijan
March 6, 2007 Tuesday
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian will meet with the
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group brokering talks on settling the
Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict in Paris on
Thursday. The meeting will be attended by the OSCE chairmans special
envoy Andrjej Caspzyk, Armenian sources said. The talks come amid
discussions between the MG co-chairs Yuri Merzylakov of Russia,
Bernard Fassier of France and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Matthew Bryza of the United States. The mediators are expected to
discuss arranging a meeting of the two countries foreign ministers in
March. Upper Garabagh is an Azeri region occupied by Armenian forces
since a 1994 cease-fire ended separatist hostilities that killed an
estimated 30,000 people and ousted about a million out of their homes.