The foreign ministers of Armenia and Turkey, Vartan Oskanian and Abdullah Gul, met late on 25 September in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. Oskanian told RFE/RL after the talks that he could report \"no practical results,\" but he termed the meeting an \"important circumstance\" in the dialogue that he and Gul began in Madrid in early June. The two ministers also discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and, according to the \"Turkish Daily News,\" a trilateral Armenian-Azerbaijani-Turkish meeting will take place after next month\'s Azerbaijani presidential election. The June meeting between Oskanian and Gul triggered optimistic speculation in Yerevan that Turkey might lift its decade-old blockade of Armenia and open its border with that country. The Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council recently issued a statement calling for the normalization of relations between the two countries and for defusing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. (RFE/RL)