EVERYONE AGREES: NAGORNO-KARABAKH’S PARTICIPATION IN NEGOTIATING PROCESS IS IMPERATIVE

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10:51 ~U 26.01.10

This year’s first trilateral meeting on the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev took place yesterday in the Russian city of Sochi. The three
countries’ foreign ministers also took part in the second half of
the meeting.

This was the first meeting between Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s
presidents this year, and the fourth trilateral meeting overall with
the participation of the Russian president, according to a press
release issued by the RA presidential press office.

Discussed during the meeting was the current stage, as well as future
prospects, of negotiations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement
process. Afterwards, the talks continued informally over lunch.

According to a high-level official close to the talks, established
in the agreed-upon preamble was Nagorno-Karabakh’s imperative
participation in future stages in the negotiations, as well as nations’
right to self-determination being a priority in the conflict settlement
process.

Also planned during the Sochi visit was a separate meeting with the
Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
Robert Bradtke, Bernard Fassier, and Yuri Merzlyakov.

Late yesterday evening, RA President Serzh Sargsyan was to return
to Yerevan.