Co-Chairs release statement on Chisinau meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States, released the following statement: the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsian and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met in Chisinau, Moldova on 8 October at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador.

The meeting was organized by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs in the presence of the personal representative of the Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andzrej Kasprzyk. This was the fifth meeting between the two presidents in the last ten months and confirmed the positive dynamic of their negotiations. “The meeting further promoted elaboration of the Basic Principles for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The talks were constructive and serious, including an in-depth, line-by-line discussion of a number of points of the Co-Chairs’ proposals. The presidents asked the Co-Chairs to incorporate the results of the discussion into their proposals in advance of the next meeting between the two”.

APA