RA FM rates initiative of Armenian and Azeri Ambassadors to Russia as positive and timely

PanARMENIAN.Net - The initiative of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Ambassadors to Russia, Armen Smbatian and Polad Bul-Bul-ogly is positive and timely, RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in Yerevan, when commenting to a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter on the visit of Armenian and Azeri intelligentsia to Stepanakert, Yerevan and Baku. "This visit may become a basis for establishment of trust between the peoples. Armen Smbatian estimated highly the meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev," Minister Oskanian said.



"The OSCE Minsk Group has no connection with the organization of the visit. During the Saint Petersburg meeting the Ambassadors proposed Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev to arrange a Stepanakert-Yerevan-Baku trip of intelligentsia, and the proposal was accepted," he said.



June 28 representatives of the Armenian and Azeri intelligentsia visited Stepanakert, Yerevan and Baku on the initiative of the RA and Azerbaijani Ambassadors to Russia.