PRESIDENTS OF ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, AND RUSSIA SIGN DECLARATION ON NAGORNO KARABAKH ISSUE
Noyan Tapan
Nov 3, 2008
MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting of Presidents of Armenia
and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev took place on November
2 in Moscow. The process of Nagorno Karabakh peaceful settlement was
on meeting’s agenda. According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan
by RA President’s Press Office, this was S. Sargsyan’s and I. Aliyev’s
second meeting this year. The first meeting took place on June 6, 2008
in Saint Petersburg, within the framework of CIS member-countries’
unofficial summit.
After the tete-a-tete conversation of Armenian and Azeri Presidents,
the negotiations continued with the participation of Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev.
S. Sargsyan, I. Aliyev, and D. Medvedev signed a Declaration as a
result of the meeting. OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Yuri Merzliakov,
Matthew Bryza, Bernard Fassier and Personal Representative of OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk were present at the signing
ceremony.
The same day S. Sargsyan met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs.
The delegation led by the RA President will leave Moscow for France
on a two-day working visit on November 3. S. Sargsyan will meet French
President Nicolas Sarkosy, Prime Minister Francois Fillon, and Senate
Chairman Gerard Larcher in Paris. He will also meet with famous singer,
National Hero of the Republic of Armenia Charles Aznavour in Paris.