OSCE MG: THIS ROUND OF MEETINGS REFLECTED PARTICULARLY CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.09.2008 14:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On the margins of the UN General Assembly session in
New York, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov,
Russian Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier, France; and Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, United States) and the
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador
Andrzej Kasprzyk, met on September 24 with the President of Armenia,
Serzh Sargsyan, and organized a meeting on September 26 with the
Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, and the Foreign
Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, the U.S. State Department’s
office of the spokesman told PanARMENIAN.Net.

On September 24, the Co-Chairs also briefed the Special Representative
of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Heikki Talvitie, on the
latest developments in the negotiations in anticipation of the next
OSCE Ministerial Conference in Helsinki. This round of meetings
reflected a particularly constructive spirit and a desire by the
parties to invigorate the negotiating process. The sides discussed
the possibility of a meeting of the two Presidents in the nearest
future. With this in mind, the Co-Chairs reiterated the position of
their governments and the OSCE that there can be no military solution
to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.