OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS RETURN FROM YEREVAN TO BAKU

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.01.2008 19:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ January 18, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Matthew
Bryza, Bernard Fassier and Yuri Merzlyakov returned from Yerevan to
Baku to meet with President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov.

At Baku airport Amb. Bryza told reporters that the Yerevan talks were
constructive but there will hardly be any considerable progress before
the presidential election in Armenia.

For his part, Russian Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov said that the positions
of Azerbaijan and Armenia do not coincide on some chapters. "That is
why we did not offer the Foreign Ministers to meet," he noted.

When touching upon participation of the Azeri community of Nagorno
Karabakh in the talks, Merzlyakov said, "It’s Azerbaijan’s internal
affair and if official Baku expresses such an intention, the Azeri
community can join the talks," IA Regnum reports.