MEETING OF ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS TO BE HELD IN SAINT PETERSBURG JUNE 7
DeFacto Agency
May 15 2008
Armenia
YEREVAN, 15.05.08. DE FACTO. A meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
Presidents Serge Sargsian and Ilham Aliyev will be held in Saint
Petersburg on June 7.
The corresponding agreement has already been reached, the RA FM Edvard
Nalbandian told journalists. The meeting of the two states' presidents
will be the first one after holding presidential elections in Armenia.
To remind, a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs Edvard
Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov was held in Strasburg on May
6. After holding bilateral talks the meeting was continued in a
broadened composition. The OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs Bernard Fassier
(France), Matthew Bryza (the U. S.), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and the
OSCE Chair-in-Office's Personal Representative Andrzey Kasprzyk were
present at the meeting.
Upon the completion of the meeting the RA FM Edvard Nalbandian told
journalists that the meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs had been
of acquaintance nature. In the course of the meeting the parties
exchanged views over the Karabakh conflict settlement process; the
two countries' stands were presented. During the meeting the ministers
agreed on the talks' continuation.
DeFacto Agency
May 15 2008
Armenia
YEREVAN, 15.05.08. DE FACTO. A meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
Presidents Serge Sargsian and Ilham Aliyev will be held in Saint
Petersburg on June 7.
The corresponding agreement has already been reached, the RA FM Edvard
Nalbandian told journalists. The meeting of the two states' presidents
will be the first one after holding presidential elections in Armenia.
To remind, a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs Edvard
Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov was held in Strasburg on May
6. After holding bilateral talks the meeting was continued in a
broadened composition. The OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs Bernard Fassier
(France), Matthew Bryza (the U. S.), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and the
OSCE Chair-in-Office's Personal Representative Andrzey Kasprzyk were
present at the meeting.
Upon the completion of the meeting the RA FM Edvard Nalbandian told
journalists that the meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs had been
of acquaintance nature. In the course of the meeting the parties
exchanged views over the Karabakh conflict settlement process; the
two countries' stands were presented. During the meeting the ministers
agreed on the talks' continuation.