EDWARD NALBANDIAN MEETS AZERBAIJANI, TURKISH COUNTERPARTS IN NEW YORK

armradio.am
27.09.2008 13:16

On September 26 in New York RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
held a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in
presence of the OSCE Misnk Group Co-Chairs Bernard Fassier (France),
Matthew Bryza (US), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The agenda included the negotiation process on the Karabakh conflict
settlement on the basis of the Madrid Proposals the Co-Chairs presented
to the parties in 2007. During the meeting it was reiterated that
the issue should be solved via negotiations and in a peaceful way.

Later the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Edward
Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov had a face-to-face meeting, during
which they discussed the ways of rapprochement between the parties
and the opportunities of organizing the recurrent meeting between
the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The same day Edward Nalbandian had a meeting with his Turkish
counterpart Ali Babacan. The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Turkey
continued the discussion on the normalization of bilateral relations
on the basis of instructions of the Presidents of the two countries.

The Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey held a
trilateral meeting, during which the parties discussed the latest
developments in the region and the initiative of forming a Caucasus
Platform.

As president of the Council of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers,
Edward Nalbandian gave a dinner in honor of the Foreign Ministers
of CSTO member states. Questions connected with coordinating the
positions on the issues on the agenda of the 63rd session of the UN
General Assembly were discussed.