OSKANYAN DOES NOT GUARANTEE MEETING IN PARIS
Lragir.am
04 Sept 06
Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan announced September 2 that he
cannot state for sure if he will meet with Elmar Mammedyarov, the
Azerbaijani foreign minister. Earlier Mammedyarov had announced that
the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Fassier suggested that
the foreign ministers meet September 12-13 in Paris, or September
14-15 in London. Mammedyarov announced that he agreed to meet.
Later Vardan Oskanyan announced on the Public Channel of Armenia
that he could not state for sure whether the meeting of the ministers
would take place, since certain processes are now underway in the UN.
Vardan Oskanyan hinted that this process may lead the Armenia to
refuse to take part in the meeting of ministers.
The Armenian foreign minister apparently meant the letter of GUAN to
the UN General Assembly proposing that the conflicts in the space of
GUAM, including the Nagorno-Karabakh issue be discussed at the 61st
session of the General Assembly. This is not desirable for Armenia,
and Vardan Oskanyan indirectly threatened that Armenia will boycott
the meeting of ministers over the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict in case the proposal is accepted.