OSCE MG CO-CHAIR ADOPT JOINT STATEMENT ON OUTCOMES OF VISITS TO ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN

Regnum, Russia
Nov 23 2006

Minsk Group OSCE co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and Bernard Fassier
(France) have adopted a joint statement on outcomes of their visits
to Armenia and Azerbaijan held on November 21-23. As Day.az reports
citing the French embassy in Baku, the statement stresses that an
agreement was reached to hold a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents and foreign ministers during the CIS summit in Minsk.

According to the source, the statement also says: "The co-chairs had
meetings with presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan and the
foreign ministers as well. As a result of the meetings held in an
open and effective manner, the two presidents accepted co-chairs’
offer to hold the meeting at the forthcoming CIS summit in Minsk.

Participants of both meetings (the presidents – REGNUM) said that
discussions held by foreign ministers in Moscow, Paris and Brussels
in October-November were resulting in terms of achieving progress in
the negotiation process."

At the same time, the statement says "the co-chairs hope that at the
meeting of the presidents and the foreign ministers in Minsk a step
forward will be taken grounding on principles approved by G8 at the
meeting in Saint Petersburg in July."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress