OSCE MEDIATORS SAY AZERI-ARMENIAN TALKS "SINCERE AND OPEN"
Turan News Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 25 2006
Paris, 25 October: The Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers
[Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan] discussed new details of
the basic principles of the Karabakh settlement during their talks
in Paris on 24 October, the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group for
the Karabakh settlement have said in a statement forwarded to Turan
news agency from the French embassy in Baku.
In a joint statement, the co-chairmen, Yuriy Merzlyakov [Russia],
Bernard Fassier [France] and Matthew Bryza [USA], said that the Paris
talks were held in "a sincere and open atmosphere". The subject of
the talks were "additional elements" to the basic principles of
the Karabakh settlement proposed to the sides by the co-chairmen
ahead of the Bucharest summit [of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization] (5-6 June 2006).
The joint statement said that the "additional elements" to the basic
principles were proposed by the co-chairmen in Moscow on 6 October.
These elements "open up new opportunities for the talks". Mammadyarov
and Oskanyan worked to "specify" these elements in Paris.
The Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers accepted the Minsk
Group co-chairmen’s suggestion to continue consultations on the
"additional elements" in Brussels on 14 November.
For their part, the co-chairmen will visit the region in late November
and discuss with the two countries’ presidents the possibility of
holding a third meeting in 2006, the statement said.