YEREVAN, February 23. /Mediamax/. The press office of the President of Azerbaijan informed today that Heydar Aliyev will leave for Paris on March 3 on the invitation of the French President Jacques Chirac.
The press service reports that “during his stay in Paris Aliyev will hold another round of talks with his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian over Karabakh dispute settlement”. The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will first hold a tete-a-tete meeting, after what Jacques Chirac will join the talks.
Azerbaijani “Bilik Dunyasi” agency reports that the new Kocharian-Aliyev meeting will last 3 days.
An informed source in the Armenian leadership told Mediamax on Feb. 17 that in early-March the meeting of the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and France will take place in Paris. The sources noted that the meeting will be held between President Kocharian’s visits to Kiev on March 1-2 and to Vienna on March 6-7. It was earlier assumed that the next meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan would take place on the Armenian-Azeri border. However, the source said, Jacques Chirac’s participation in the talks “makes the process more effective”. –0–
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