March 12, 2005 - 09:10 AMT
ARMENIAN FM TO MEET WITH OSCE MG AMBASSADORS MARCH 16
A meeting of Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian with the Ambassadors of the OSCE Minsk Group for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is planned in Vienna March 16, Regnum news agency reported. Just then the date of the new meeting of Armenian and Azeri FMs is expected to be fixed. In the words of OSCE MG Russian Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov, the OSCE fact-finding mission on discovering settlement of territories around Nagorno Karabakh will officially deliver the report to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna March 17. Yuri Merzlyakov noted that the mission report is balanced. Besides, as noted by Mr. Merzlyakov, at present the Ambassadors consider the opportunity of holding the recurrent meeting of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev. Among the possible dates is mentioned May 8-9, when both Presidents will be present at the celebrities on the occasion of the 60-th anniversary of the Victory in Moscow. Either it may happen May 16-17 at the Council of Europe summit in Poland. However, as noted by the Russian diplomat, specific terms are not determined yet. "Proposals are made, we await for what the parties will say," he noted.