OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS CALL TO MAKE ACTIVE EFFORTS IN SETTLEMENT OF
NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT

Azer Tag
[May 17, 2005, 15:56:47]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has
distributed a communiqué for press about the meeting of presidents
of Azerbaijan taken place on May 15 in Warsaw and Armenia with
participation of co-chairmen of the Minsk Group of OSCE.

In the message, it is stated that on May 15, before Summit of the
Council of Europe in Warsaw, has been carried out the next meeting of
the president of Azerbaijan I. Aliyev and the president of Armenia R.
Kocharyan on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement with participation of
co-chairmen of MG of OSCE (Russia, the USA, France).

It is marked that on behalf of Minsk Group member countries, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov who has called both presidents
to give a necessary pulse to the further negotiations and to set
forward process of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
opened the meeting. The Russian minister was supported by Minister
of Foreign Affairs of France M. Barnje and from the USA – S. Mann.

After the two-hour private conversation, I. Aliyev and R. Kocharyan
asked the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group together with the Ministers of
Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Armenia to continue on the basis of
the positive operating time achieved during discussions carried out by
this year of the basic components of settlement. They have confirmed
mutual aspiration to achieve the prompt break during settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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