BAKU: OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Meet Armenian Foreign Minister

OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS MEET ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
July 10 2007

The co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier (France),
Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and Personal Representative of OSCE
Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, mediators in the settlement of
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are negotiating with Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanyan in Paris, Russian Foreign Ministry’s group
on Nagorno Karabakh told the APA.

This is the first meeting of the mediators with the conflicting parties
after the negotiations of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham
Aliyev and Robert Kocharian in St. Petersburg on June 9.

Analogous negotiations with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov are not planned yet.

Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Khazar Ibrahim told the APA that
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister is on leave at present.