By Karine Kalantarian
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian held a meeting with OSCE Minsk Group cochairman from the United States Matthew Bryza on Monday on the sidelines of the two-day international forum “Caspian Prospects 2008” in the Slovenian town of Bled, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vladimir Karapetian told RFE/RL. Karapetian did not report the details of the meeting. He said that Oskanian did not meet his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov.
Karapetian also said that Oskanian’s speech at the forum dealt with the Armenia-EU relations as part of the New Neighborhood Policy.
More than 180 representatives of a number of countries, including President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, are attending the forum.