Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 27 2006
Shon McCormack: We hope Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents will come
to closure on some of the issues that divide them in Bucharest
[ 27 May 2006 14:55 ]
`The objective of US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried’s
visit to the Caucasus together with the Minsk Group co-chairs was to
see if we could find a way forward on resolving the Nagorno-Garabagh
issue between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
For the time being, I don’t know as to what sort of progress they may
have made,’ US Department of State official Shon McCormack told a
daily briefing (APA). Stating that Presidents of Azerbaijan and
Armenia are scheduled to get together in Bucharest, Romania, in the
beginning of June, Mr. McCormack said the hope would be that they
might at that point be able to come to closure on some of the issues
that divide them.
`They made a run at it while they were in France. They weren’t able
to come to agreement. We, working with the Minsk co-chairs, are
hopeful that they can come together to resolve whatever differences
there are. These are tough issues, we know. It’s going to require
tough political decisions on both sides. But we think taking this
tough — tough political decisions will benefit all the peoples of
that region in the end,’ McCormack concluded./APA/