Twosome meeting of Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliyev lasted about three
hours

Arminfo
2007-06-11 12:45:00

Meeting of presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Robert Kocharyan and
Ilham Aliyev was held in St.
Petersburg in the "Baltiyskaya Zvezda" hotel. The meeting was dedicated
to the issues of Karabakh settlement.

As the News Bakililar.az reports, the twosome meeting of the presidents
lasted about three hours, after which OSCE MG Co-chairs Yuri Merzliakov
(Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Matthew Bryza (USA), as well as
the foreign ministers of the two Caucasian states joined them. The
meeting details are yet unknown, the source reports.

To recall, this is the first meeting of the two states’ presidents in
2007. Earlier, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan held
negotiations on the Karabakh conflict settlement on November 28, 2006
in RF Embassy in Minsk. The two countries’ foreign ministers and OSCE
MG co-chairs participated in that meeting.

To note, before the meeting, OSCE MG co-chairs thought they had
succeeded to approach the conflicting parties to agreement on the basic
principles of peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. In
particular, the American Co-chair M. Bryza said in an interview to AP
that if the meeting passes successfully, the conflicts on the basic
principles of settlement "may be brought to naught". For their part,
the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan assessed such prospect from
the meeting in St. Petersburg more frostily.