Armenian and Azeri FMs to Meet in Strasbourg

PanARMENIAN.Net - May 18-19 Armenian and Azeri FMs will meet with OSCE MG co-chairs in Strasbourg. In the words of Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov, the co-chairs have new ideas on Karabakh settlement. «After discussions at the meeting it will be clear whether talks between the Presidents are necessary. There are some new, really interesting ideas that we are working over, analyze, however some of these we cannot accept,» he remarked. In his turn former acting President of Azerbaijan Yagub Mammadov believe the meeting and attaining a specific practical peace accord between Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev before the summer depends on the decision that the Ministers will take first of all, writes Ekho newspaper.
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