ELMAR MAMMADYAROV: "RUSSIAN PRESIDENT IS INTERESTED IN ACHIEVING SOLUTION TO NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT"

APA
July 20 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Victoria Dementyeva – APA. "The meeting of the presidents of
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia in Moscow created some hopes.

There is a progress in the process", Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists, APA reports.

The minister said Azerbaijani side was hopeful for both St Petersburg
and Moscow meetings. "We believe and feel that Russian President
Dmitriy Medvedev is interested in achieving solution to the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict on his initiative. We felt during the discussion of
details at the Moscow meeting that he intended to reach any progress".

Mammadyarov added that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs would continue
their work on the principles of the conflict solution in August. "They
expected to visit the region separately early September and jointly
late September".