Yerevan Is Satisfied With The Results Of Sargsyan-Aliyev Meeting In Zurich
Regnum
Jan 28 2009
Russia
The Armenian side assessed the Zurich meeting as positive and
constructive, a REGNUM was informed at the press service of the
President’s Administration according to results of Sargsyan-Aliyev
meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 28.
The meeting of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was attended by the Foreign
Ministers of two countries Edward Nalbandyan and Elmar Mammadyarov, as
well as OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (USA) Mattew Bryza, Yuri Merzlyakov
(Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Personal Representative of
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk. Then within an hour the
Presidents’ had a tête-a-tête meeting, which was again followed by
broad negotiations. The sides shared viewpoints on the present stage
of the negotiation process over the Karabakh issue. Following the
results of the meeting the Presidents of both countries instructed the
Foreign Ministers to continue the negotiations within the framework
of the Minsk group Co-Chairs. An agreement was reached concerning
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.
It is worth mentioning that this was the third meeting of the both
Presidents. Previous two took place in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. An
agreement concerning the meeting in Zurich was reached within the
framework of the Minsk group Co-Chairs visit to the region on January.
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