OSCE HEAD HOPES FOR PROGRESS IN AZERI, ARMENIAN LEADERS’ MEETING ON 10 JUNE

Trend news agency, Baku
4 Jun 07

The visiting Spanish foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, who
is also the OSCE chairman-in-office, has expressed the hope that
the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders will make progress towards the
Karabakh settlement at a meeting planned in St Petersburg on 10 June.

"The OSCE is trying to make sure that the Azerbaijani and Armenian
presidents take real steps in this direction at their meeting in St
Petersburg on 10 June," Trend quoted Moratinos as saying in Baku on
4 June.

The Spanish foreign minister said that Azerbaijan and Armenia had
never been so close to reaching an agreement on the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict, Turan said.

Following his meetings with President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister
Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku on 4 June, Moratinos said that Azerbaijan
"has the desire to take a step forward", Turan reported.

He expressed the hope to see the same in Yerevan.

On 5 June, Moratinos will leave Baku for Yerevan, where he plans to
meet Armenian officials and the separatist leader of Nagornyy Karabakh.