BERNARD FASSIER: "WE EXPECT IMPROVEMENT IN THE NEGOTIATIONS ON THE SOLUTION TO NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT"

APA
April 23 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Viktoria Dementieva – APA. OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Matthew
Bryza (US), Bernard Fassier (France), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and
personal representative of OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk
have today left Yerevan for Baku.

French co-chair Bernard Fassier told journalists at Heydar Aliyev
International Airport that the mediators will meet with Azerbaijani
officials tomorrow after their discussions in Baku. The co-chairs
will meet with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, and later with
President Ilham Aliyev.

Bernard Fassier said they would return to Yerevan early on April 25. He
said before leaving for Yerevan they would hold a press conference.

To the question "How do you assess the present state of the
negotiations?" the French diplomat said: "I think there are
prospects. We expect some improvement in the negotiations."