Interfax - Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama Thursday 7:46 PM MSK Armenian, Azerbaijani foreign ministers' meeting to help avert armed conflict - Yerevan YEREVAN. Aug 10 An upcoming meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers scheduled for September will be aimed at preventing possible hostilities in the region, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said. "The mediators are setting one task - averting possible hostilities and reducing the degree of tensions. This is task number 1," he told reporters on Thursday. Azerbaijan's policy "remains a policy of force, and this country is trying to blackmail the mediators, but it will not succeed," Kocharyan said. Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov are expected to meet in New York in the second half of September. Nalbandian told reporters on Wednesday that "the meeting's agenda includes ways to promote the negotiating process [on Nagorno-Karabakh]. There is no alternative to negotiations." The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs proposed arranging a meeting on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents before the end of 2017. The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers met previously in Brussels on July 11. The ceasefire between Armenia and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on one side and Azerbaijan on the other side was declared in May 1994. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk Group, set up in 1992, has been mediating talks on finding a peaceful solution to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The OSCE Minsk Group includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Turkey. It is co-chaired by Russia, France and the United States.