APA, Azerbaijan
April 25 2009
Azerbaijani President agrees to meet with Armenian President, official
Baku confirms
[ 25 Apr 2009 11:14 ]
Baku. Naila abdullayeva ` APA. Official Baku has confirmed that
Azerbaijan’s President agreed to meet with Armenian President in
Prague in May, Russian co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov
told journalists at the airport, APA reports.
He said that uncoordinated issues with regard to the solution to
Nagorno Karabakh would be discussed during the Prague meeting.
`We hope the meeting will produce results,’ he said.
Merzlyakov said after the presidents’ meeting in Prague the co-chairs
would visit the region again.
French co-chair Bernard Fassier compared the settlement of Nagorno
Karabakh conflict with the construction of a house.
`This is a long process. Our visits and talks mean bricking up, but we
are not yet ready to build the roof. We hope concrete and serious
improvement will be made by this year-end,’ he said.
Fassier said the meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents in
St. Petersburg in June depended on the results of the Prague
negotiations. He underlined that the normalization of Turkey-Armenia
relations would also influence the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
American co-chair Matthew Bryza said the meetings with Azerbaijani
officials were constructive and he was leaving Baku in a good mood.