Trend, Azerbaijan
July 18 2009

Armenian, Azerbaijani presidents instruct FMs to organize their new
meeting in autumn

The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents have instructed their foreign
ministers to jointly work with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on the
Nagorno-Karabakh to organize a new high-level meeting in autumn. This
is the result of the Moscow meeting of Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan
on July 17, the presidential press service told ITAR TASS in Yerevan.

The parties "have demonstrated a constructive attitude to continue
negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict," the
press service said.

The Moscow meeting began with the participation of foreign ministers
of Armenia and Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandyan and
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov /Russia/, Bernard
Fassier /France/, and Matthew Bryza /U.S./ as well as the OSCE
Chairman Special Envoy Andzey Kasprzyk. Then the presidents continued
the twosome negotiations, after which the ministers and the co-chairs
again joined them.