ROBERT KOCHARIAN AND ILHAM ALIYEV MET IN WARSAW

Armenian and Azeri Presidents Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev met in Warsaw on May 15, Mediamax agency reports. Upon completion of the meeting the leaders made no statement for the press. First the meeting was held in presence of Sergey Lavrov, Michel Barnier, Vartan Oskanian and Elmar Memedyarov – the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia, France, Armenia and Azerbaijan – as well as the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs. Later Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev continued the talks in private for about 2 hours. Russian FM Sergey Lavrov refrained from commenting on the Presidents’ meeting. “I cannot comment on the issues which are the subject of negotiations between the Armenian and Azeri Presidents”, he noted. According to Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev discussed with the Russian and French FMs the outcomes of the Prague process. At the same time, Elmar Mamedyarov added, the Presidents did not consider any precise program of the Karabakh conflict settlement. “The most complicated problems are the details. We succeeded in achieving agreement on many questions, however there are issues on which the positions of the states disaccord greatly”, the Azeri FM said. He also expressed hope that the meeting of Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev “will allow re-examining the results achieved earlier.”