April 2, 2002 - 23:45 AMT
MEETING OF ARMENIAN AND AZERI RELIGIOUS LEADERS POSTPONED AGAIN
The meeting of the religious leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan has been postponed again. It should be noted that the prior agreement about the meeting that should have taken place by the mediation of patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Aleksy II was reached in fall. Approximate dates of the meeting were issued for several times in Yerevan and Baku media. At first, it was planned in late December, then in early February. But the talks of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and the religious leader of Muslims of Transcaucasia sheik ul-islam Allahshukyur Pashazade have not taken place. In the press service of the office of Holy Echmiadzin it has been reported that at the present time preparatory works for the meeting are not carried out. At the same time Baku press has some information that in the administration of the Muslims of Transcaucasia the organizational works for the meeting of the religious leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan continue.