From: Abraham Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 14:58:25 EDT
MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS MEET WITH ARMENIAN PRESIDENT... The
U.S., French, and Russian co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group
met for 90 minutes in Yerevan on 21 May with Armenian
President Robert Kocharian to discuss the prospects for
resolving the Karabakh conflict. The co-chairmen subsequently
termed those talks "productive," but failed to specify a date
for the next round of talks between themselves, Kocharian,
and his Azerbaijani counterpart Heidar Aliev. Those talks had
been tentatively scheduled for mid-June in Geneva, but
Russian co-chairman Nikolai Gribkov hinted on 20 May that
they may be postponed until August or later, RFE/RL's
Armenian Service reported. Kocharian for his part underscored
the role of Russia in the mediation process and added that he
may discuss the peace prospects with Russian President
Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the CIS Collective
Security Council session in Yerevan later this month. LF
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