PRESS TV, Iran
June 10 2007

Leaders to talk on Karabakh
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:28:02

Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan are to continue talks on
settling the status of the mountain territory of Nagorny Karabakh.

Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
are to meet during an informal gathering of heads of state of the CIS
(Commonwealth of Independent States) group of ex-Soviet countries in
Saint Petersburg, a member of Kocharian’s press service said.

The talks began on Saturday with the participation of mediators from
France, Russia and the United States.

Western diplomats have indicated that an agreement could be signed by
the end of this year on basic principles for resolving the dispute
over Nagorny Karabakh.

The two ex-Soviet states have remained at loggerheads since they
fought a war in the early 1990s, with corrosive effects for the whole
Caucasus region.