ARMENPRESS

ARMENIA EXPECTS AZERBAIJAN TO STOP CEASEFIRE BREACHES

YEREVAN, MARCH 7, ARMENPRESS: President Robert
Kocharian met today with U.S. deputy assistant
secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs,
Mathew Bryza, who is also the U.S. cochairman in the
OSCE Minsk Group.
Viktor Soghomonian, a spokesman for Kocharian, said
at today’s press briefing that among other things the
two men discussed the political situation in Armenia
and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"The Armenia side has one expectation -it is that
the ceasefire regime must be observed, all
provocations on the border be stopped to remain in the
past," Soghomonian said.
He said all three cochairmen of the Minsk Group
from Russia, France and USA spoke in favor of
arranging the meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents on the sidelines of the first international
gathering that they will attend.
He declined to say when such a meeting may be
arranged, saying the first opportune chance will be
used to do so, but added that usually such meetings
are Preceded by cochairmen’s visits to the region and
narrowing of differences between the sides.
Soghomonian said the outgoing president Robert
Kocharian whose term in office ends on April 9 is not
likely to meet with Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev.