KOUCHNER AFTER CLINTON

LRAGIR.AM
18:58:00 – 27/03/2009

On March 27, the Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandyan met
with the French ambassador to Armenia Serge Smesov. Serge Smesov
conveyed to Edward Nalbandyan the French foreign minister Bernard
Kouchner’s message.

In his message, the French foreign minister dwelt on the Armenian
and French high-level relations, and the regional questions.

Remembering his meeting with the Armenian foreign minister on March
10 and attaching importance to the Moscow declaration signed by
the Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on November 2, 2008 and the
declaration adopted in December 2008, Bernard Kouchner expressed
their willingness as a Minsk group co-chair country to make all the
efforts on the peace settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, the
Armenian foreign ministry reports.

Remind that the U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton addressed a
message to the Armenian foreign minister a few days ago. It is notable
that on a recent conference on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue in Vienna,
the U.S. and French Minsk group co-chairs hold very strict speeches
in regard with the settlement of that issue.