MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS TO MEET IN MOSCOW TOMORROW

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21.04.2010 17:38

US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Robert Bradtke has described his
meetings in Baku as ‘very serious and constructive.’

"I was very pleased when Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev underlined
that he supported a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem,"
Bradtke said. "I reiterated at the meeting with the president that
US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
supported a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue."

The American diplomat said that the Minsk Group co-chairs would meet
in Moscow tomorrow, APA reports.

Asked whether Armenia accepted the Madrid principles for a settlement,
Robert Bradtke said: "We will continue discussions. There are important
points where common views are expressed, but some points have not
been agreed yet.’"

He echoed his comments of yesterday that one of the goals of his
visit was to regain the lost momentum in the Karabakh peace process.

Robert Bradtke’s remarks came as a senior Azerbaijani official
broadened the scope of his criticism of Karabakh mediation to cover
all three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.

‘We are not satisfied with the work of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
in making progress on a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The problem is still in deadlock, there is no movement,’ Ali Hasanov,
head of the public policy department at the Azerbaijani presidential
administration, told journalists today.

Russia’s new co-chair, Igor Popov, said in Baku today that Moscow’s
position on Karabakh would not change because of his appointment.