RF, AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA PRESIDENTS TO DISCUSS KARABAKH CONFLICT
Itar-Tass
25.01.2010, 03.20
MOSCOW, January 25 (Itar-Tass) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
will meet with his counterparts, Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Serzh
Sargsyan of Armenia, in Sochi on Monday to discuss the settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Kremlin press service reported.
Upon the results of the first tripartite meeting in Barvikha "the
presidents signed the Declaration of the Azerbaijani Republic, the
Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, which confirmed the
striving for attaining a political settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict under the international law, the support for the mediating
efforts of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, the United
States and France) and the agreements reached between the presidents
of Azerbaijan and Armenia to intensify the negotiating process and
to promote the creation of conditions for building up trust."
"A forthcoming meeting in the tripartite format is intended to confirm
Russia’s intention to continue an active mediating assistance to the
parties to the conflict in order to find a mutually acceptable solution
to the Nagorno Karabakh problem, particularly within the framework of
the OSCE Minsk Group," the Russian presidential press service reported.
"Along with the Nagorno Karabakh settlement problem the presidents
will discuss topical issues of regional cooperation (with due account
of Russia’s current presidency in the CIS as of January 1, 2010),
the measures that are being taken within the framework of regional
integration unions to overcome the negative aftermaths of the world
financial and economic crisis, as well as the situation in the Caucasus
region," the Kremlin press service said.