PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN TO MEET IN CHISINAU OCTOBER 8

armradio.am
06.10.2009 15:09

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs held a briefing in Baku today. Earlier
Russian mediator Yuri Merzlyakov presented the statement issued by
the Co-Chairs.

The statement reads that the co-chairs came to Baku after holding
meetings with Armenian authorities.

"We offered Azerbaijani President to meet with his Armenian counterpart
in Chisinau. Ilham Aliyev gave his consent to the meeting. The meeting
will take place prior to the summit of the Commonwealth of Independent
States on October 8."

According to the statement, the Chisinau meeting will be the
continuation of talks in Moscow on July 18.

Yuri Merzlyakov said President Ilham Aliyev regarded the outcomes of
the Moscow meeting as positive. "President said Chisinau meeting will
continue the positive dynamics of the Moscow talks," he said.

French co-chair Bernard Fassier expressed his satisfaction with the
meeting with Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh.

"All the members of the community told us that they are ready to live
together with Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh again," he said.

U.S. co-chair Robert Bradtke said it was his first visit to Azerbaijan
in the capacity of co-chair and noted that the U.S. government was
ready to continue the mediation in the peaceful settlement of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

"Some p rogress has been made in the negotiations up to now. We hope
that more progress will be achieved in Chisinau meeting," he said.