Interfax, Russia
May 1 2009

France hopes May 7 talks on Karabakh between Azeri, Armenian leaders
will see progress

BAKU May 1

The French Foreign Ministry expects that a meeting between the Azeri
and Armenian presidents in Prague on May 7 to address the
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process should help make significant
progress in resolving this problem, the French Embassy in Baku said on
Friday.

France, which is a member of the OSCE Minsk Group mediating the
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem along with the U.S. and
Russia, is continuing to make active efforts to achieve a balanced and
peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, the statement says.

The meeting between the Azeri and Armenian presidents should continue
the previous meetings in St. Petersburg in June 2008, in Moscow in
November 2008, and in Zurich in January 2009, which passed in a
constructive atmosphere, it says.

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