KARABAKH NEGOTIATORS TO DISCUSS "UPDATED" MADRID PRINCIPLES IN KRAKOW

Liberty
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July 22 2009
Armenia

The Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will hold a working session at the end of
July in Krakow, Poland, to prepare an updated version of the Madrid
Document in accordance with the ‘L’Aquila Declaration’ of the U.S.,
Russian and French presidents

In a statement published on the OSCE website, the Co-Chairs said
that the discussions between the Armenian and Azerbaijani president
in Moscow on July 17-18 on issues related to the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were held "in a frank and constructive
atmosphere"

They said this "allowed the sides to discuss at length and in detail
proposed formulations to overcome their remaining differences on the
few elements of the Basic Principles that have yet to be conceptually
agreed."

The Co-Chairs also say in the statement that they intend to visit the
region in September "to assess the possibilities for a subsequent
meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents either at
the end of September or the beginning of October."