HIGH-LEVEL ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI NEGOTIATIONS ON THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THE NAGORNO KARABAKH TOOK PLACE IN MOSCOW
President.am
July 20 2009
Armenia
High-level Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations on the peaceful settlement
of the Nagorno Karabakh took place today at the President Hotel
in Moscow.
The meeting of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev 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, Bernard Fassier, Matthew Bryza and the
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk. Later, the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan continued
negotiations one on one. After the private conversation of the two
Presidents, the negotiations resumed with the participation of the
Foreign Ministers and the Co-chairs.
In a constructive spirit the parties have decided to continue
negotiations directed at a peaceful settlement of the NK conflict.
Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliev instructed the Ministers
of Foreign Affairs together with the Minsk Group Co-chairs to start
preliminary works for a probable meeting of the two Presidents
this fall.