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CONVERSATION TOOK PLACE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ATMOSPHERE
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07:53 pm | June 05, 2009
Politics
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group released the following statement
today:
"The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov
- Russian Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier - France; Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza - United States) took part
with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Andrej Kasprzyk in the meeting of President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev and President of Armenia Serge Sargsyan in Saint Petersburg,
Russia on 4 June 2009.
This meeting was the fifth since June 2008 when the Presidents met
for the first time.
During their tete-a-tete conversation as well as at the working session
held afterwards with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the Ministers of
Foreign Affairs, the Presidents discussed the overall conception of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement advanced by the mediators
and reviewed some of the elements of the proposed settlement that
have not yet been agreed.
The conversation took place in a constructive atmosphere and resulted
in positive steps that narrowed the differences between the two
countries on a number of the Basic Principles of the settlement.
Because of these positive developments in their discussion, both
Presidents asked the mediators to continue their shuttle diplomacy and
to open a new and major subject outlined by the Madrid Document which,
according to their views, still remains the basis of the negotiation.
In addition, the two Presidents agreed on the mediators' proposal
for the Presidents to continue their meetings in the nearest future,
if possible in July."
A1+
07:53 pm | June 05, 2009
Politics
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group released the following statement
today:
"The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov
- Russian Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier - France; Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza - United States) took part
with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Andrej Kasprzyk in the meeting of President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev and President of Armenia Serge Sargsyan in Saint Petersburg,
Russia on 4 June 2009.
This meeting was the fifth since June 2008 when the Presidents met
for the first time.
During their tete-a-tete conversation as well as at the working session
held afterwards with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the Ministers of
Foreign Affairs, the Presidents discussed the overall conception of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement advanced by the mediators
and reviewed some of the elements of the proposed settlement that
have not yet been agreed.
The conversation took place in a constructive atmosphere and resulted
in positive steps that narrowed the differences between the two
countries on a number of the Basic Principles of the settlement.
Because of these positive developments in their discussion, both
Presidents asked the mediators to continue their shuttle diplomacy and
to open a new and major subject outlined by the Madrid Document which,
according to their views, still remains the basis of the negotiation.
In addition, the two Presidents agreed on the mediators' proposal
for the Presidents to continue their meetings in the nearest future,
if possible in July."