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    ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HOPES FOR PROGRESS IN KARABAKH TALKS

    Mediamax news agency
    18 Apr 06

    Yerevan, 18 April: Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said
    in Yerevan today that "the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents did
    not manage to achieve progress in Rambouillet. However, we do not
    consider the meeting to be a 'debacle'."

    Addressing a meeting of the Armenian-EU parliamentary cooperation
    commission in Yerevan today, Oskanyan said that "the failure at
    Rambouillet does not mean the debacle of the entire negotiating
    process", Mediamax reports. In this regard, the Armenian foreign
    minister recalled that the decision to hold a meeting at Rambouillet
    had been made on the basis of the substantial progress achieved in
    the negotiating process in 2005.

    Oskanyan noted that taking into account agreements reached earlier
    and the [OSCE] mediators' activity, there are grounds to hope that
    progress in the negotiating process will be achieved.

    The minister pointed out that while earlier Yerevan said that it
    would discuss the elimination of the consequences of the conflict
    only after the determination of the political status of Nagornyy
    Karabakh, today the Armenian side has made "a serious compromise"
    and its position is somewhat different.

    "If Azerbaijan agrees that the people of Nagornyy Karabakh have a right
    for self-determination which can be implemented not at once but in
    the future, then the Armenian side is ready to discuss already today
    the elimination of the consequences of the conflict - territories,
    refugees and other security issues," Oskanyan said.
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