AZERI, ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS TO DISCUSS KARABAKH AT ST. PETE MEETING – LAVROV

Interfax
May 8 2009
Russia

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
are expected to discus prospects for settling the conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh at a meeting in St. Petersburg, said Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"They will have another opportunity to meet on the sidelines of the
St. Petersburg Economic Forum," Lavrov said at the Washington D.C.

headquarters of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Moscow is hopeful for the settlement of the problem of Nagorno-
Karabakh, he said.

"We view prospects for a settlement quite optimistically," he said.