July 12, 2001 - 19:45 AMT
PORTUGAL INTENDS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
Vice Prime Minister of Portugal, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaime Gama, who left Yerevan for Baku yesterday, will meet today Heydar Aliev, the President of Azerbaijan. He will also meet the OCSE Minsk group cochairmen who will inform him about the Karabakh conflict settlement process. Portugal intends to have his own representative in Minsk group, as next year the Minister of Foreign Affairs of that country will be the acting OCSE chairman.