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    ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
    November 22, 2006 Wednesday


    Kocharyan agree to meet Aliyev in Minsk over Karabakh - diplomat

    by Tigran Liloyan


    Armenia has agreed to hold a meeting between the presidents of
    Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of the CIS summit to take place in
    Minsk on November 28, said Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian co-chairman of
    the Minsk Group for Nagorno-Karabakh.

    The meeting of the presidents' mediators yielded results, the Russian
    ambassador said on Wednesday before his departure to Baku.

    In his words, ``it is necessary to receive Azerbaijani President
    Ilkham Aliyev's approval'' although earlier the Azerbaijani foreign
    minister ``made a corresponding statement to this effect''.

    The Russian co-chairman said U.S. ambassador Matthew Bryza's absence
    is conditioned by the fact that the co-chairmen ``agreed to divide
    their obligations. These days the American colleague is to meet
    Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arkady Gukasyan, who is currently in the
    United States.''

    Merzlyakov believes, ``In general, the year is rather optimistic for
    us. If we manage to do this, we have good prospects in 2007.''

    French co-chairman Bernard Fassier said he is hopeful that the
    presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan ``will succeed in bringing
    closer their positions on certain difficult issues.''

    Recently military rhetoric has become ``more subdued'' and it has not
    prevented the 2006 key task - to organise a meeting between the
    presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan. ``Military rhetoric impedes the
    negotiating process on the Karabakh settlement whether such
    statements are made on the eve of important meetings,'' the Russian
    co-chairman stressed.

    ``The co-chairman have a common position - the war is not a real
    possibility to solve the conflict,'' Fassier added.
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