FM MEETS WITH OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Sept 27 2006

Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov participating in the 61st session
of the United Nations General Assembly in New-York met September 26
with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Personal Representative of the
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

Ways of finding solution to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh were discussed during the two-hour close-door meeting.

"The Co-Chairs expressed their wish to visit the region shortly",
Elmar Mammadyarov said after the meeting.

He noted the Co-Chairs are dealing with the problems impeding the
peace negotiations.

The Minister added that the Minsk Group Co-Chairs will go to Finland’s
capital, Helsinki, later this week to report on the current stage of
negotiations to the presidency of the European Union.

The same day, the OSCE Mink Group Co-Chairs and Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk also met with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian.