SERGEY LAVROV TO DISCUSS KARABAKH SETTLEMENT ISSUE IN BAKU

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.05.2007 17:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will make
a trip to Baku by the invitation of the Azeri side May 21-22. During
the visit President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev will host Sergey Lavrov
for discussing the current situation and perspectives of developing
bilateral relations, the PanARMENIAN.Net was told the Press Office
of the Russian Embassy in Armenia.

A negotiation between S. Lavrov and Azeri Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
is scheduled, during which the sides will touch upon economic aspect of
cooperation, perspectives of widening cooperation in energy, science
intensive sectors, innovative activities, development of cooperation
in oil sphere.

During S. Lavrov’s meeting with his Azeri colleague Elmar Mamedyarov
the sides will exchange views on actual issues of international and
regional developments, they will discuss ways of strengthening UN’s
central role, possibilities of deepening cooperation in the framework
of CIS. The current situation in the Nagorno Karabakh settlement will
be also discussed. Russia aims at assisting the conflicting parties
in finding compromise solution.

Russia’s principled stance on Karabakh remains the same. Moscow would
be ready to support that variant of solution, which will satisfy both
conflicting parties, and in case of reaching a compromise agreement
Russia will stand as a guarantee for settlement.