AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN FMS TO MEET IN PARIS WITHOUT AMERICAN CO-CHAIR’S PRESENCE
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 13 2006
Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers will meet in Paris today
(APA).
The sides will discuss agreeing upon the issues which were not solved
during the Presidents’ meeting in Bucharest and make efforts to reach
common agreement. The two Foreign Ministers will also have talks on
organizing next meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh said to APA
that this meeting is the continuation of the Prague process.
The OSCE Minks Group Russian and French co-chairs, Yuri Merzlyakov
and Bernard Fassier as well as personal representative of the OSCE
chairman-in-office Andrzei Kaspiisk will also participate in the
meeting of Foreign Ministers. There wil be no delegate from US-
other co-chair of the Minsk Group.
US Embassy public affairs officer Jonathan Henick told APA that Steven
Mann is not the co-chair any more as he has been appointed to another
post. The United States will not be represented in the talks this
time as new co-chairman has not yet been appointed.