OSCE CO-CHAIRS DISCUSS MEETING OF AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS

Today, Azerbaijan
March 13 2007

Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza (US), Bernard Fassier
(France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), mediators in the settlement
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, met in Geneva.

Yuri Merzlyakov told the APA that French co-chair Bernard Fassier
informed the co-chairs of his latest visit to the region.

The co-chairs also discussed the meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian
Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan, which is to
be held in Geneva on Wednesday.

Merzlyakov noted that the co-chairs are preparing for the meeting.

Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers will have the next round
of negotiations for the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with
the participation of the co-chairs.

URL: Turkish diplomats
have been unsuccessful in mustering broad community support against
the non-binding resolution proposed by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who
is Jewish and has a large Armenian constituency. A number of Holocaust
scholars have labeled the massacres, carried out by Ottoman-era Turks,
as a genocide and have called it a precursor to the Holocaust. Ovadya
said such considerations were best left to historians, but claimed
that politically the resolution would harm relations between the
United States and its closest Muslim ally.