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    Armenia, Russia to confront Karabakh conflict in Moscow talks - spokesman

    ITAR-TASS news agency
    3 Jul 04

    MOSCOW

    The Nagorgyy Karabakh problem will be one of the main subjects of the
    talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Armenian
    Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan, Aleksandr Yakovenko, official
    spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said today in connection
    with Oskanyan's visit to Moscow on 5-7 July.

    Yakovenko said that "Russia is ready to further the process of
    settlement of the conflict and to guarantee an agreement acceptable to
    both sides [Armenia and Azerbaijan]". "The sides involved in the
    conflict must find a compromise to resolve the problem themselves," he
    said.

    During the talks the sides will focus "on issues of cooperation
    between the countries within the framework of the CIS [Commonwealth of
    Independent States], including the sphere of the Collective Security
    Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Community, and
    coordination of efforts by the two countries' foreign ministries to
    improve the situation in the Caucasus". The issues of trade, economic,
    cultural and humanitarian cooperation will be given priority.

    "Moscow and Yerevan are resolute to take deliberate and necessary
    steps to fight terrorism in all its manifestations on the bilateral
    and multilateral basis," Yakovenko said. "Effective practical
    cooperation of law-enforcement agencies and security forces is making
    political collaboration in the antiterrorism area stronger".

    Oskanyan's visit "will give a fresh impetus to the Russian-Armenian
    relationship, which has a firm legal basis," Yakovenko said.

    The programme for Oskanyan's visit includes a meeting with Andrey
    Kokoshin , chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Commonwealth of
    Independent States and Relations with Compatriots.
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