Armenian-Azeri high-level negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh peaceful
settlement held on July 17

MOSCOW, JULY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian-Azeri high-level negotiations
over Nagorno Karabakh peaceful settlement were held on July 17 at the
President hotel, Moscow.

The meeting of RA President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham
Aliyev started with the participation of the two countries’ Foreign
Ministers Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadiarov, OSCE Minsk Group
Co-chairs Yuri Merzliakov, Bernard Fassier, Matthew Bryza, and Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk. Then
the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan continued the negotiations in
the tete-a-tete format, after which the Co-chairs and Foreign Ministers
again joined the negotiations.

The sides showed a constructive disposition to continue the
negotiations over conflict’s peaceful settlement.

According to the report of the RA President’s Press Office, S. Sargsyan
and I. Aliyev charged the Foreign Ministers together with OSCE Minsk
Group Co-chairs to do preparatory work in the direction of organization
of Presidents’ possible meeting that may take place in autumn.