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Tuesday, 21 June 2005
ARMENIA DESCRIBES PARIS KARABAKH TALKS AS \'CONSTRUCTIVE....\'
By empty (6/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told journalists in Yerevan on 20 June that his talks three days earlier in Paris with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on approaches to resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were \"positive\" and \"constructive,\" RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. At the same time, Oskanian admitted that he and Mammadyarov failed to build on the \"small step forward\" achieved one month earlier in Warsaw by the two countries\' presidents. Oskanian told journalists last week that he hoped it would prove possible in Paris to formalize in a written text the agreements reached in Warsaw.
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told journalists in Yerevan on 20 June that his talks three days earlier in Paris with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on approaches to resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were \"positive\" and \"constructive,\" RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. At the same time, Oskanian admitted that he and Mammadyarov failed to build on the \"small step forward\" achieved one month earlier in Warsaw by the two countries\' presidents. Oskanian told journalists last week that he hoped it would prove possible in Paris to formalize in a written text the agreements reached in Warsaw. Oskanian said the two sides are working on \"all elements of a package settlement,\" but stressed, as he has done previously, that he considers it pointless to address other issues until \"clarity\" is reached regarding the future status of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. (RFE/RL)