Co-Chairs present an updated version of the Madrid Document to
Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan
armradio.am
22.01.2010 14:14
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued the following statement today:
"On January 20, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Ambassador Yuri
Merzlyakov, the Russian Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier,
France; Ambassador Robert Bradtke, United States) met with Armenian
President Serzh Sargsian in Yerevan, Armenia. As instructed by their
presidents in L’Aquila in July 2009, the Co-Chairs delivered to
President Sargsian, just as they had to President Ilham Aliyev during
their visit to Baku in December 2009, an updated version of the Madrid
Document of November 2007, containing the Co-Chairs’ latest
articulation of the Basic Principles.
On January 21, the Co-Chairs met President Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan.
In their discussions with the Co-Chairs, each president expressed
their commitment to continue to pursue a peaceful settlement to the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and reaffirmed the seriousness of their side
in the negotiations.
The Co-Chairs traveled to Astana, Kazakhstan for consultations with
the Government of Kazakhstan, upon its ascension to the Chairmanship
of the OSCE. Following their consultations in Astana, they will
continue on to Sochi, Russia, where Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
will host the next meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and
Armenia."