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RA AND AZERI PRESIDENTS CONTINUE DISCUSSING ISSUES IN KISHINEV, AROUND WHICH THERE IS NO MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING YET
Noyan Tapan
Oct 9, 2009
KISHINEV, OCTOBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian-Azeri high-level
negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh peaceful settlement took place on
October 8 in Kishinev in the residence of the U.S. Ambassador.
RA President Serzh Sargsyan's and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's
meeting started in an enlarged format, with participation of two
countries' Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadiarov,
OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Yuri Merzliakov (RF), Bernard Fassier
(France), Robert Bradtke (U.S.), and Personal Representative of OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Then S. Sargsyan and I. Aliyev continued the meeting tete-a-tete,
after which the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and the two countries'
Foreign Ministers again joined them. According to the RA President's
Press Office, during the talk lasting three hours the sides showed a
constructive disposition to continue the negotiations around conflict's
peaceful settlement.
At the end of the meeting the Co-chairs in a press briefing informed
journalists that the Armenian and Azeri Presidents continued discussing
the issues, around which there is no mutual understanding yet. The
Co-chairs said that the negotiations continue within the framework of
the international law and all basic documents, self-determination
right, non-use of force and all well-known principles fixed by
Helsinki Final Act. They also said that the process of Nagorno Karabakh
settlement is in no way connected with the Armenian-Turkish dialogue,
and they are separate processes.
Noyan Tapan
Oct 9, 2009
KISHINEV, OCTOBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian-Azeri high-level
negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh peaceful settlement took place on
October 8 in Kishinev in the residence of the U.S. Ambassador.
RA President Serzh Sargsyan's and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's
meeting started in an enlarged format, with participation of two
countries' Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadiarov,
OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Yuri Merzliakov (RF), Bernard Fassier
(France), Robert Bradtke (U.S.), and Personal Representative of OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Then S. Sargsyan and I. Aliyev continued the meeting tete-a-tete,
after which the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and the two countries'
Foreign Ministers again joined them. According to the RA President's
Press Office, during the talk lasting three hours the sides showed a
constructive disposition to continue the negotiations around conflict's
peaceful settlement.
At the end of the meeting the Co-chairs in a press briefing informed
journalists that the Armenian and Azeri Presidents continued discussing
the issues, around which there is no mutual understanding yet. The
Co-chairs said that the negotiations continue within the framework of
the international law and all basic documents, self-determination
right, non-use of force and all well-known principles fixed by
Helsinki Final Act. They also said that the process of Nagorno Karabakh
settlement is in no way connected with the Armenian-Turkish dialogue,
and they are separate processes.