June 20, 2002 - 19:07 AMT
KOCHARIAN-ALIYEV MEETING NOT TO TAKE PLACE TILL JULY, AZERI PRESIDENT STATES
«I will meet with Armenian president Robert Kocharian in July if the two parties agree to this». The head of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev stated this in Baku on his arrival from Nakhichevan. According to him, he has not had any intentions to meet with the Armenian president in the nearest future. Speaking about the Turkish MFA last initiative regarding the holding of the meeting of the Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers with the Azeri president within the framework of the Istanbul summit of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, Aliyev stated such meeting would not take place. According to him, in Istanbul, he will meet with the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.