Interfax Russia
Jan 14 2008
Mediators in Karabakh settlement talks meeting with Azeri authorities
BAKU. Jan 14 (Interfax-AVN) – The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group
from France, Russia, and the United States are beginning talks on the
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement with Azeri authorities on Monday, the
press service of the Azeri Foreign Ministry told Interfax on Monday.
A meeting with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry will start the
talks. It is expected that Azeri President Ilkham Aliyev will receive
the mediators as well.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs, co-chairman of the Minsk Group Matthew Bryza told
journalists a day earlier that the mediators expect that the Azeri
and Armenian presidents will reach an oral agreement on the
settlement before the presidential elections in both countries.
The U.S. diplomat also opposed attempts to equate the Nagorno-
Karabakh and the Kosovo conflicts since each of them is unique. ar sm