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    Federal Information and News Dispatch, Inc.
    State Department
    August 25, 2005

    Secretary's Phone Calls: Upcoming Kazan Talks (Taken Question)

    Taken Question
    Office of the Spokesman
    Washington, DC
    August 25, 2005

    Question Taken at the August 25, 2005 Daily Press Briefing

    Secretary's Phone Calls: Upcoming Kazan Talks

    Question: What did Secretary Rice discuss during her phone calls to
    Presidents Aliyev and Kocharian?

    Answer: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke briefly this
    morning with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President
    Robert Kocharian of Armenia.

    She did so in order to stress to them the importance that the United
    States attaches to their upcoming meeting in Kazan, and to express
    our hope that the two Presidents will make the compromises necessary
    in order to reach a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    Both leaders were upbeat about the prospects for making progress.

    The Secretary stressed to President Aliyev the importance of free and
    fair parliamentary elections this November in Azerbaijan, and noted
    his important role in this.

    The Secretary also told President Kocharian she hoped Armenia would
    make progress toward enacting a package of constitutional reforms now
    before the parliament.

    2005/810

    Released on August 25, 2005
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