Armenian, Azeri leaders meet in Astana with international mediators in attendance
Mediamax news agency
15 Sep 04
Yerevan, 15 September: A meeting has started between Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan at
Hotel Intercontinental in Astana.
A special correspondent of Mediamax news agency reports from the Kazakh
capital that at the beginning of the meeting of the two countries’
presidents, in attendance were the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group
from Russia, the USA and France – Yuriy Merzlyakov, Steven Mann and
Henry Jacolin.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are to hold another meeting
today in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A source in the Armenian delegation has told the Mediamax correspondent
that if today’s talks between Kocharyan and Aliyev are successful,
this will open up a new stage in the dialogue of the two countries’
foreign ministers who are working on possible solutions to the
Karabakh problem.
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