MEETING OF ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS WAS CONSTRUCTIVE

DeFacto Agency
June 9 2008
Armenia

YEREVAN, 09.06.08. DE FACTO. A meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
Presidents Serzh Sargsian and Ilham Aliyev was held in St. Petersburg.

Upon completion of the meeting Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs
Edvard Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov noted the meeting had been
constructive though it was just of acquaintance nature. In their words,
the Presidents did not discuss the mediators’ Madrid proposals. Edvard
Nalbandian said Serzh Sargsian and Ilham Aliyev had familiarized
themselves with the parties’ stands on the Karabakh conflict. The
Presidents also commissioned both countries’ FMs to continue talks
within the frames of the OSCE Minsk group.

In Elmar Mammadyarov’s words, OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs will visit the
region in the nearest time, the RA President’s Press Office reports.