Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Dec 4 2008
Foreign Minister Babacan meets with his Armenian and Azerbaijan
counterparts
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan separately met Armenian Foreign
Minister Eduard Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov in Helsinki on Thursday.
Babacan is currently in Helsinki to attend the 16th Ministerial
Council Meeting of the Organization for the Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE).
Foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met on Wednesday with
Russian, French and U.S. executives, the co-chairmen of OSCE Minsk
group. Babacan’s talks with the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign
ministers assessed the results of this meeting.
OSCE Minsk group assumes a mediating role in talks aiming to achieve a
peaceful solution to the problem about Upper Karabakh.