ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE

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On Wednesday, Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan, estimated positively Armenian and Azeri presidents’ meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, but declined to give details. He said the presidents would tell all about the meeting if find it necessary.

Presidents Rober Kocharyan and Ilkham Aliev met in Astana last week while attending the CIS summit. By the end of their bilateral meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin joined them.

Vardan Oskanyan said he didn’t share the opinion that Russia became too active in Karabacki conflict settlement issue.

He said meetings with the participation of the third country had always been held. Besides, Karabakh conflict settlement is within Russia interests, he added.

Oskanyan is not sure that Kocharyan-Aliev talks started from that very point, at which they were interrupted because of the then Azeri president Heydar Aliev’s death “I can only say that the idea hasn’t been rejected”, he said.

The foreign minister is unhappy about the CE official Terri Davis report on Nagorno Karabakh and finds it “unacceptable to us”.

The minister doesn’t expect an objective stance also from British David Atkinson, a new CE reporter on Karabakh, he says he is aware of Great Britain’s approach to territorial integrity concept. But he says he still hopes for better, as the report will impact the course of Karabakh conflict settlement.

It isn’t clear yet when a meeting between Azeri and Armenian foreign ministers is to be held. Oscanyan will fly Thursday to New-York to attend the UNO 59th session.