Today.Az, Azerbaijan
July 18 2009

Meeting between Azerbaijani, Armenian presidents will help co-chairs
to formulate new suggestions: U.S. co-chair

18 July 2009 [09:32] – Today.Az

"Today’s meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia
Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan has provided the co-chairs with more
detailed views of Heads of State on the remaining key issues to settle
the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict."

"This in turn will help the co-chairs to formulate suggestions helpful
for the sides to narrow their differences," OSCE Minsk Group
U.S. co-chair Matthew Bryza said on July 17.

"Today’s exchange of views of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia
has provided the co-chairs with more detailed views of the presidents
on the key remaining issues, which will help us formulate proposals to
help the sides narrow their differences," he said.

On July 18, Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian presidents are expected
to meet in a trilateral format.

This is sixth meeting in a format of Aliyev – Sargsian so
far. Previous talks between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham
Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan took place on June 4 in St. Petersburg. The
summit was the fifth between the heads of two countries on the
Karabakh settlement. Previous meeting was held in Prague on May 7. The
first talks were held June of last year in St. Petersburg and the
second meeting was held in late November 2008 in Moscow, the third –
in Zurich on January 28 this year.

Bryza said the meeting was deep and constructive, and there was
detailed discussion of the difficult elements of the Basic Principles
that remain to be agreed.

"Unfortunately, the presidents did not make any new decisions
today. But, they did build on the progress they made in
St. Petersburg, where did take some decisions," he said.

American co-chair said he hopes that the presidents will make progress
in the trilateral meeting tomorrow.

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