ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: NO AGREEMENT ABOUT KOCHARYAN-ALIYEV MEETING REACHED YET

REGNUM
September 18, 2007

On results of a visit of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs no agreement was
reached on a bilateral meeting of the Armenian and the Azerbaijani
presidents, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan told reporters
today.

A REGNUM correspondent quotes Oskanyan as saying that the meetings
with the co-chairs were very effective, however, a number of
uncoordinated issues is still on the agenda, and the MG co-chairs
discussed prospects of settling them during the pause in the talks. At
a meeting with Armenian President Robert Kocharyan they mostly talked
of the uncoordinated issues, and the president expressed his point of
view upon them; now the co-chairs are in Baku, where most probably they
will listen to the point of view of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

The Armenian foreign minister noted that if the co-chairs see that
Aliyev and Kocharyan’s position have something in common on the
mentioned issues, "they will start settling further optimal steps." It
is necessary to wait for the results of the meeting in Baku, and after
that it will be clear at what level the meetings will be held – on
the level of foreign ministers or presidents, he said adding that,
probably, the co-chairs would decide to act in some other way or
limit themselves to regional visits.

"Nothing is to be ruled out; it will be a decision taken by the
co-chairs," Oskanyan concluded.