ELMAR MAMMADYAROV: "IF WE ACHIEVE PHASE-BY-PHASE SOLUTION WE CAN SPEAK ABOUT SOME PROGRESS"

APA
June 3 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova -APA. "The meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
presidents in St Petersburg tomorrow will most probably have same
format with Zurich and Prague meetings", Azerbaijan Foreign Minister
Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists, APA reports.

He said traditionally the co-chairs submitted their ideas to the
presidents first of all and then the presidents held tete-a-tete
meeting, following that the co-chairs and foreign ministers were
invited to the meeting and the presidents gave instructions to
them. Mammadyarov said it was difficult to make comments on the US
co-chair Matthew Bryza’s opinion that "the co-chairs have done enough
work in the past two months and if the presidents wished they could
reach final results tomorrow". "It is important point if the co-chairs
see any positive point in the process. However I can say that Armenia
showed non-constructive position in Prague. I don’t know, may be the
co-chairs saw different points in Yerevan. It will become clear in St
Petersburg tomorrow. We consider the phase-by-phase settlement and if
we reach it, we can say that there is some progress". The minister said
the sides reached an agreement on one issue during the Prague process.

"The sides agreed that despite an agreement on some principles, they
can not speak about the agreement on the principles if all of them
are not agreed".