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    ARMENIAN, AZERI PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO MEET IN MINSK

    Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
    Nov 16 2006

    A meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take
    place on November 28, in Minsk, on the sidelines of the summit of
    the Commonwealth of Independent States, Russian co-chair of the OSCE
    Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov told ITAR-TASS in Vienna on Thursday.

    According to him, such an agreement was reached between the two
    countries' foreign ministers in Brussels two days ago.

    Earlier, Armenia's Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told RFE/RL that
    the issue of the presidents' meeting will be finally specified after
    the visit of the international negotiators to the region planned for
    next week.

    On behalf of the OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen Yuri Merzlyakov urged the
    two countries' presidents to take the unique opportunity and agree on
    principles of the Karabakh conflict settlement, since, according to
    him, no such opportunity will be offered in the coming year. He said
    that elections will be held in Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2007-2008,
    which, according to him, will have a negative impact on the process
    of negotiations.

    "Besides, key political figures that have participated in the
    negotiations during the last ten years from the Armenian side will
    start to drop from the negotiating process next year." Merzlyakov did
    not expand on whom particularly he means. In the past several years
    Armenia's president and foreign minister have participated in the
    high-level talks around the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. The presidential
    election in Armenia is due in 2008.
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