Azerbaijan News Sevice
May 17 2005
AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS ONCE AGAIN CONFIRM LOYALTY TO
PEACEFUL SOLUTION
2005-05-17 19:34
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have once again confirmed their
interest in achieving the solution of Daqliq Qarabaq problems through
peaceful means. OSCE Minsk group Co-chairmen says on a joint statement
issued on the results of meeting of Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan
in Warsaw, Poland. The statement says the leaders of Azerbaijan
and Armenia had bilateral talks on May 15 on the eve of Council
of Europe summit. According to the results Ministers of Foreign
Affairs of both countries were charged to continue cooperation with
OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen on the basis of positive results which
were achieved during the meeting taken place within the framework of
“Prague process” negotiations in order to start elaboration of mutually
acceptable suggestions. For the time being co-chairmen are drawing
out a schedule for next round of consultations between parties. The
statements says Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister and his French
counterpart Michel Barnier participated in the enlarged meeting and
expressed support on behalf of their nations for OSCE Minsk group
co-chairmen and adherence to peaceful solution. Steven Mann, OSCE
co-chairman representing United States of America made analogical
statements. He pointed out that heads of Azerbaijan and Armenia had
eye-to-eye meeting during two hours while co-chairmen met Foreign
Ministers at that time. At the end Presidents of both countries
acquainted co-chairmen with their thoughts conclusions.