Minsk Group Co-Chairs To Visit The Region

MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS TO VISIT THE REGION

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[07:47 pm] 28 January, 2009

The President’s press service has issued a press release today
detailing a recent Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting in Zurich, Switzerland.

"The meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was attended
by the Foreign Ministers of the two countries Edward Nalbandyan
and Elmar Mammadyarov, OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov
(Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Mattew Bryza (USA) and Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk. Then
the Presidents’ had a tête-a-tête meeting. The talks resumed in an
extended format in an hour.

The Armenian side assessed the Zurich meeting as positive and
constructive. During the meeting the sides shared viewpoints on the
present stage of the talks over the Karabakh issue. The Presidents
instructed the FMs to continue the negotiations within the framework
of the Minsk group Co-Chairs. An agreement was reached in view of
the Co-Chairs’ forthcoming visit to the region.

After the meeting Serzh Sargsyan left for Davos to participate in the
opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum," holds the press release.

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