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OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS MAKE A STATEMENT
Azeri Press Agency
April 3 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku. Tamara Grigoryeva-APA. The Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group have
released the following statement today, OSCE Office told APA.
On the margins of the NATO summit in Bucharest on April 2-4, 2008, the
Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov (Russian
Federation), Ambassador Bernard Fassier (France), and Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Matthew Bryza (United States), and the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman in Office, Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk, met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
Prime Minister and President-elect Serge Sargsian, together with their
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Elmar Mammadyarov and Vartan Oskanyan.
"The two leaders and the Co-Chairs exchanged views on ways to reduce
differences between the sides and forge consensus on the Basic
Principles for the Peaceful Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK)
Conflict. The Co-Chairs reiterated their support for the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan and reaffirmed their longstanding view that
a peaceful resolution of the conflict would require a negotiated
political compromise on the final status of NK, pending the future
approval of its population," the statement records. The statement
says that the two leaders and the Co-Chairs agreed to continue
the negotiations on the existing basis, further clarify the current
proposal on the table, and pursue additional steps to advance the peace
process. For that purpose, the mediators underscored the utility of
meetings at the highest level between the sides as soon as possible.
Azeri Press Agency
April 3 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku. Tamara Grigoryeva-APA. The Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group have
released the following statement today, OSCE Office told APA.
On the margins of the NATO summit in Bucharest on April 2-4, 2008, the
Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov (Russian
Federation), Ambassador Bernard Fassier (France), and Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Matthew Bryza (United States), and the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman in Office, Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk, met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
Prime Minister and President-elect Serge Sargsian, together with their
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Elmar Mammadyarov and Vartan Oskanyan.
"The two leaders and the Co-Chairs exchanged views on ways to reduce
differences between the sides and forge consensus on the Basic
Principles for the Peaceful Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK)
Conflict. The Co-Chairs reiterated their support for the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan and reaffirmed their longstanding view that
a peaceful resolution of the conflict would require a negotiated
political compromise on the final status of NK, pending the future
approval of its population," the statement records. The statement
says that the two leaders and the Co-Chairs agreed to continue
the negotiations on the existing basis, further clarify the current
proposal on the table, and pursue additional steps to advance the peace
process. For that purpose, the mediators underscored the utility of
meetings at the highest level between the sides as soon as possible.