No major progress between Azeri, Armenian leaders – minister
ANS TV, Baku
27 Aug 05
[Presenter] The last meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan on the Nagornyy
Karabakh problem has been held in Kazan. The presidents first had a
tete-a-tete meeting and then were joined by the co-chairmen of the
OSCE Minsk Group.
During the talks which lasted for about an hour, an exchange of
opinions was also held on some issues agreed upon at a meeting between
the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers, Elmar Mammadyarov and
Vardan Oskanyan, in Moscow on 24 August.
Tatarstan’s Kazan-inform news agency says that both Ilham Aliyev and
Robert Kocharyan, as well as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen,
positively assessed the talks. President Ilham Aliyev’s plane landed
at Heydar Aliyev airport about 30 minutes ago, which marks the end of
his visit to Tatarstan.
In an interview with ANS, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov positively assessed this meeting.
[Mammadyarov] We should now analyse the results. In general, I cannot
say that there has been any major progress or breakthrough. We did not
reach any agreement. But, in general, certainly, talks between the two
presidents are always important and they try to make their positions
correspond each other. I think that we, both Armenia and Azerbaijan,
need a couple of weeks to analyse the thoughts voiced by the two sides
and think what the results may be and whether we are prepared for any
progress or not.
[Passage omitted: Kazan-inform says all official meetings at the CIS
summit have ended]