Minsk Group Co-Chairs: Parties Committed To Peaceful Settlement

[Nanijanian Alex]

MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS: PARTIES COMMITTED TO PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT

http://hetq.am/en/karabakh/29439/
2010 /03/30 | 16:11

Nagorno Karabakh

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group released the following statement
today:

"The Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian
Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier, France; Ambassador Robert
Bradtke, United States) visited Yerevan and Nagorno-Karabakh March
26-29. They updated the de facto authorities March 27 on the current
state of negotiations.

In Yerevan, on March 28, the Co-Chairs met President Serzh Sargsyan
and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian to further discuss Armenian
comments on the Basic Principles for the peaceful settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. While in Armenia, the Co-Chairs also had
a number of other separate bilateral meetings.

After the recent meetings between the Co-Chairs and the parties in
Paris and in the region, the Co-Chairs note with satisfaction the
commitment of the parties to reach a peaceful settlement within the
framework of the Madrid Principles."