Armenian, Azeri presidents’ forthcoming meeting decisive – minister
Arminfo
25 May 07
Yerevan, 25 May: "The meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents in St Petersburg will be a decisive one, and after that,
it will become clear whether a real progress in the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict settlement is possible in the near future," Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanyan has said at [Yerevan’s] Zvartnots airport.
Oskanyan said that the meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijan
presidents in St Petersburg is being prepared currently. "If the
current trends continue, we think that there will be a real basis to
hold talks between the presidents," he said.
Commenting on the [OSCE Minsk Group] co-chairs’ statement that
reaching no agreement on one principle cancels all the others, he said
that it is "the general principle."
"The process is going on now, and unless there is a full decision on
the general and the final, it makes no sense to speak about agreements
on details," he said. Oskanyan added that he cannot say whether a
final decision on the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict
would be made by the end of this year. "From our part, we agreed, Baku
should do its half," he said.
Refraining from making predictions, Oskanyan said that a lot, in
particular, the clarification of the process, depends on the success
of the presidents’ meeting in St Petersburg. Besides, he said, the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs plan to return to the region soon with
Angel Moratinos, foreign minister of Spain that is currently presiding
in the OSCE.
Speaking of a possibility to stay in the new cabinet, Oskanyan said
that it is still too early to judge. "The cabinet has not been formed
in full yet, but according to preliminary information, I am staying in
the cabinet, and will most probably be the foreign minister until the
presidential election [in 2008]," he said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
