PRESIDENTS OF ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN MET IN MOSCOW
armradio.am
05.06.2009 11:14
The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev held a meeting at the Baltic Star Hotel in
Saint Petersburg, President’s Press Office reported.
This meeting in Saint Petersburg is the fifth between Presidents
Sargsyan and Aliev in the framework of the Nagorno Karabakh peace
process. The meeting started with the participation of the Ministers
of Foreign Affairs of the two countries Edward Nalbandian and Elmar
Mamedyarov, Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov, Matt
Bryza and Bernard Fassier, as well as the Personal Representative of
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzey Kasprzyk.
Later, the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan
continued in the tete-a-tete format. The negotiations, which lasted
almost two and a half hours, were continued again in the extended
format.
The meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was conducted
in a constructive atmosphere. The parties agreed to move forward the
negotiation process. The Foreign Ministers of the two countries were
instructed to continue to work with the assistance of the OSCE Minsk
Group Co-Chairs towards the synchronization the parties’ positions
and arrangement of the next meeting between the Presidents of Armenia
and Azerbaijan.