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NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT MEDIATORS DISCUSS RECENT INCIDENTS WITH AZERI LEADERS
Interfax
July 10 2012
Russia
The Minsk Group, a body appointed by the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
has discussed with the Azeri leadership recent incidents along the
line separating Azeri and Armenian positions, the group's Russian
co-chairman, Igor Popov, said on Tuesday.
"We are going to discuss the same issue in Nagorno-Karabakh and
in Yerevan," Popov told reporters in comments on meetings in Baku
between the Minsk Group co-chairmen, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan's
President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, on
the other.
Popov said the Minsk Group had no plans yet to organize a meeting
between the Azeri and Armenian presidents.
"In the near term, possibly after the summer vacations, we'll meet with
the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, first separately and
then we are planning to organize a joint meeting. For this reason,
a meeting between the presidents is not yet on the agenda," the
co-chairman said.
He said that, after the co-chairmen finish their current visit to
the region, they would meet with the Azeri and Armenian foreign
ministers again.
U.S. co-chairman Robert Bradtke said the co-chairmen's meeting with
President Aliyev had been constructive.
He also said that on Wednesday the co-chairmen would cross the
separation line into Nagorno-Karabakh. He said it was very important
to sustain the practice of crossing the separation line because,
he argued, it stressed the importance of maintaining the current
ceasefire.
Interfax
July 10 2012
Russia
The Minsk Group, a body appointed by the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
has discussed with the Azeri leadership recent incidents along the
line separating Azeri and Armenian positions, the group's Russian
co-chairman, Igor Popov, said on Tuesday.
"We are going to discuss the same issue in Nagorno-Karabakh and
in Yerevan," Popov told reporters in comments on meetings in Baku
between the Minsk Group co-chairmen, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan's
President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, on
the other.
Popov said the Minsk Group had no plans yet to organize a meeting
between the Azeri and Armenian presidents.
"In the near term, possibly after the summer vacations, we'll meet with
the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, first separately and
then we are planning to organize a joint meeting. For this reason,
a meeting between the presidents is not yet on the agenda," the
co-chairman said.
He said that, after the co-chairmen finish their current visit to
the region, they would meet with the Azeri and Armenian foreign
ministers again.
U.S. co-chairman Robert Bradtke said the co-chairmen's meeting with
President Aliyev had been constructive.
He also said that on Wednesday the co-chairmen would cross the
separation line into Nagorno-Karabakh. He said it was very important
to sustain the practice of crossing the separation line because,
he argued, it stressed the importance of maintaining the current
ceasefire.