Oskanian: No Ground for Meeting of Armenian and Azeri Presidents

There are no grounds for a meeting of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev, Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian told RFE/RL. In his words, the question of the meeting of the two Presidents will be decided only after the meeting with E. Mammadyarov in Brussels November 14 and the regional visit of the co-chairs of the OSCE MG. Oskanian called the Paris meeting “normal and constructive.” “I cannot say that there are specific points of contact, but there is an opportunity to make positions of the parties closer. There are no final results yet, but this meeting was the continuation of the Moscow one, where new ideas over the issues, over which the parties had differences, were voiced,” the Armenian FM said. He also reported that those principles were discussed during his latest visit to Nagorno Karabakh. “The Karabakh party is familiar with the documents on the bargaining table. Of course it does not mean they agree with all its items. We agree wit the principles, but the document is something more than mere principles. We have differences over details in the document and with the OSCE MG co-chairs,” Oskanian added.