Azerbaijan, Armenia agreed on two more issues – Azeri foreign minister
Assa-Irada
27 Jun 05
Baku, 27 June: “We managed to come to an agreement on two issues of
principle with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan in Paris,”
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has told Assa-Irada.
Mammadyarov did not specify what they had agreed on, saying that the
sides had agreed to keep it confidential. He also said that despite
the progress in the talks, the sides had not yet been able to achieve
agreement on certain issues, he said.
“Of course, we will discuss these issues in the future. We will decide
what we should do to achieve our goals,” Mammadyarov said. He went on
to say that the talks were currently being conducted in keeping with
the principles defined by the [Azerbaijani and Armenian] presidents
in Warsaw and the foreign ministers were trying to reach consensus
on those principles.
[Passage omitted: the ministers had a brief unofficial meeting in
Brussels]
Mammadyarov said he could not confirm Deputy Foreign Minister Araz
Azimov’s forecast that the peace process might yield results in August.
“It is very difficult to name a date for this. To be honest, I do not
believe that the talks will give results by late August. Much will
depend on the presidents’ meeting in Kazan in late August,” he said.
[Passage omitted: the Armenian side denies reports about the ministers’
unofficial meeting in Brussels]
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress