YEREVAN. May 28 (Interfax-AVN) - Negotiations between Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict scheduled for June 10 in St. Petersburg may prove decisive, Armenian Prime Minister Vardan Oskanian told journalists.
"I can tell you that the meeting between the Armenian and Azeri presidents to take place in St. Petersburg will be decisive, and it will become clear afterwards whether we have real progress in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict or not," Oskanian said.
"It always makes sense to expect substantial progress from meetings between presidents," he said.
Preparations for negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh problem at the presidential level are still under way, and "if the current trends remain in place, Armenia will agree that there are solid grounds for holding a presidential meeting," Oskanian said.
The foreign minister of Spain, the country currently holding the OSCE presidency, and all the three co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group representing Russia, France, and the U.S. will visit the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict area on June 5, Oskanian said.
He agreed with the co-chairmen's opinion that the key principle of the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations is that not a single problem can be considered agreed upon separately until an agreement has been achieved on the entire set of problems.
"Certainly, this is our common principle. The process is under way, and until there is no absolute agreement on all issues between the parties, it makes no sense to talk about agreements on individual issues," Oskanian said.
Armenia still cannot say definitely that there is substantial progress in the talks on Nagorno-Karabakh following the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen's recent visit to the area, because "Armenia has given its consent, but the missing part of the progress should be provided by Baku," he said.