DATE MAY BE AGREED FOR N.-KARABAKH SUMMIT – MEDIATOR

Interfax
March 3 2009
Russia

The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan could hold their next meeting
within the next few months, said Bernard Fassier, French co-chairman
of the Minsk Group, an Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) body mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Fassier told a news conference in Yerevan that he and the other co-
chairmen, who represent Russia and the United States, would visit
Baku on Tuesday to negotiate the date for such a meeting.

Fassier hailed a recent meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, between the
Armenian and Azeri presidents but deplored documents on the Nagorno-
Karabakh problems that Azerbaijan has disseminated at the United
Nations.

The Group’s American co-chairman, Matthew Bryza, insisted that a
solution to the problem be based on the principles of non-use of force,
territorial integrity and self-determination.

The co-chairmen rejected the idea of a military solution to the
conflict.