YEREVAN, BAKU CLARIFY POSITIONS ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT BASIC PRINCIPLES

Interfax
May 8 2009
Russia

Yerevan thinks that the Thursday meeting between Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilkham Aliyev in Prague is useful,
the Armenian presidential press service told Interfax.

"The Armenian side assesses the Prague meeting as useful, which
allowed the country to even more clarify the positions on the basic
principles of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, as well as to approach
the position on the certain issues," the press service said.

The Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers were tasked to continue
adjusting the main settlement principles and preparing the next
meeting between the two leaders together with the co-chairmen of the
OSCE Minsk Group on the basis of the ‘Madrid proposals.’

The opening of the Prague meeting of the two presidents was attended
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, Azeri Foreign
Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, the Minsk Group co-chairmen, and Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk. The meeting then proceeded in the tete-a-tete format and
lasted over two hours.

This has been the fourth meeting Sargsyan and Aliyev, since the former
was elected Armenian president.