PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN DOES NOT RULE OUT THE MEETING WITH HIS AZERI COUNTERPART
Public Radio, Armenia
Nov 7 2006
"I’m not very optimistic about the process of the Karabakh conflict
settlement," President Robert Kocharyan said during the meeting
with representatives of the Kazakh-Armenian community in Astana,
"Armenpress" reports. "I thought that 2006 was a year of opportunity
for us: there were no election processes either in Azerbaijan or
in Armenia, and we tried to actively negotiate with the President of
Azerbaijan to settle question, but it was not a success," the President
said. He underlined that recently the Foreign Ministers of the two
countries also met to discuss the possible ways of settlement of the
question. "It is possible that this month they will meet again, and in
case it inspires hope that we can move forward, I do not rule out that
I will meet with the President of Azerbaijan late November. Nothing
is definite here," Robert Kocharyan informed. In his words, the recent
meetings do not inspire great optimism. "The impression is that we did
not manage to achieve progress during this year," RA President stated.