OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS CALL ON THE PARTIES TO DISPLAY CONSTRUCTIVENESS IN THEIR PUBLIC STATEMENTS
ARMENPRESS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS: OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri
Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Robert Bradtke
(USA) made a joint statement in New York connected with the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict regulation.
Press service of the OSCE told Armenpress that the newly appointed US
co-chair Robert Bradtke hosted September 24 B. Fassier, Yu. Merzlyakov
and personal representative of the OSCE acting chairperson Andrzej
Kasprzyk for conducting consultations.
The co-chairs also met with the senior director of the National
Security Council’s European affairs Elizabeth Sherwood-Randel and Aide
to the US Assistant State Secretary Tina Kaidenow. September 25 the
co-chairs met with the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan
and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammedyarov.
"The two ministers and co-chairs reconfirmed the dedication of
conducting negotiations on the basis of the basic principles and
discussed issues connected with the regional visit of the co-chairs in
early October. As we have agreed July 18 in Moscow the co-chairs will
visit Armenia and Azerbaijan to prepare the meeting of the Armenian
and Azerbaijani presidents in Kishinev within the framework of CIS
Summit. The co-chairs, on this important moment in negotiations,
called on the two parties to display constructiveness in their public
statements," the statement of the co-chairs says.