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FRENCH CO-CHAIR OF OSCE MG DESCRIBED NEGOTIATIONS IN YEREVAN AND BAKU AS "VERY CONSTRUCTIVE"

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 12 2007

The French Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard Fassier, described
his negotiations with the Heads of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the
recent several days in Baku and Yerevan as "very constructive".

Presenting a speech at the briefing in Yerevan on 12 March, Bernard
Fassier stated that co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will hold
a meeting in Geneva on 13 March to finally form the agenda of
negotiations of the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia
scheduled for 14 March, Mediamax reports.

"If the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia
in Geneva is successful to formalize the key principles of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, one or two more meetings
of the Foreign Ministers will take place, the results of which
will be presented to the Presidents of the two countries for their
consideration," Fassier said, adding that in any case, the meeting
of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will not take place until
parliamentary elections in Armenia on 12 May.