OSCE mission to visit Azerbaijan’s occupied lands

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Dec 8 2004

The OSCE mission is expected to visit the occupied lands of Azerbaijan
with a view to scrutinizing illegal settlement of Armenians. The
issue was discussed in a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign
ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanian with participation
of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, which was recently held within the
forum of the OSCE member states’ foreign ministers in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The parties exchanged views on the status and prospects of settlement
of the Upper Garabagh conflict and agreed to continue talks in the
format of Prague meetings.

The Sofia meeting comes as the fifth one on settlement of the Upper
Garabagh conflict held between the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign
ministers.*