Armenian, Azeri foreign ministers to meet in Brussels on 9 December

Armenian, Azeri foreign ministers to meet in Brussels on 9 December

Arminfo
8 Dec 04

Yerevan, 8 December: Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan and
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will have a meeting in
Brussels on 9 December. The meeting will be attended by the co-chairmen
of the OSCE Minsk Group to settle the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict,
the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry has told Arminfo
news agency.

The Armenian foreign minister arrived in Brussels from Sofia
yesterday to participate in a meeting of the foreign ministers of
the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (CEAP). As was reported, the
two countries’ foreign ministers also held a meeting in Sofia.

According to the source, Oskanyan today held a meeting with the
ambassadors of CEAP member countries and representatives of analytical
centres drawing up European policy. During the meeting, the sides
touched on relations between Armenia and Turkey, Armenia’s prospects of
integrating into and expanding cooperation with the European Union in
the context of Europe’s New Neighbourhood policy. The foreign minister
then met the European Commission’s commissioner for expansion issues,
Olli Rehn, to present Armenia’s approach to the 17 December summit of
the European Union regarding Turkey’s accession to the European Union.

[Passage omitted: Vardan Oskanyan also met other European officials]