Armenian Foreign Ministry denies Azeri report on peace talks in London
Arminfo
1 Apr 05
YEREVAN
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan is to meet the co-chairmen
of the OSCE Minsk Group in London on 15 April, while there is no
agreement yet on meeting Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov. The Armenian Foreign Ministry press secretary, Gamlet
Gasparyan, has said this in a conversation with an Arminfo
correspondent when commenting on Mammadyarov ‘s statement. An
invitation to attend the meeting in London has come from the
co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group, Gasparyan said.
We should recall that RIA-Novosti news agency quoted the Azerbaijani
foreign minister as saying in Warsaw yesterday [31 March] that the
next meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers
would be held in London on 15 April. The meeting will be held with the
co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, the USA and France) in
attendance, the agency said. Mammadyarov added that during the meeting
between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, the date would
be set for a possible meeting between the two countries’ presidents,
Robert Kocharyan [of Armenia] and Ilham Aliyev [of Azerbaijan].