Yerevan: There is no final decision on the Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting
ArmInfo. The final decision on the Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting is not yet available. Shavarsh Kocharyan, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia, stated this in a conversation with journalists after the government meeting on July 27.
Shavarsh Kocharyan noted that the proposal to hold a meeting at the level of the presidents came from the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. In this direction, the work of the foreign minister of Armenia and Azerbaijan, but so far the parties have not come to a common denominator, he said. Touching upon Azerbaijan's refusal to investigate the incidents on the border with Armenia and the line of contact with the NKR, Kocharian noted: "We are dealing with a state that acts by the principle - who is shouting" hold the thief "louder. And only the "thief" is advantageous, so that the mechanisms of investigation are not introduced.
"It should be reminded that on July 20 at a briefing of the Deputy Director of the Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Artem Kozhin said that the venue of the Aliyev-Sargsyan meeting has not yet been determined. Was published in the newspaper Izvestia about the fact that the next meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, will be held in Moscow, is not true.
It should be noted that on July 11 the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs issued a joint statement following the meeting with the Armenian and Azeri FMs, in which they noted that an agreement has been reached to hold the next meeting of the foreign ministers of the two countries in New York in September in the fields of the UN General Assembly. It was also noted that efforts are being made to organize a summit at the end of this year. In this connection, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan noted that such a meeting could be held in September this year. At the same time, he added that Yerevan does not have special expectations from such a meeting.