Interfax, Russia
Jan 29 2009
Yerevan praises outcome of presidential talks on Karabakh settlement
YEREVAN Jan 29
The Armenian side regards the outcome of the Zurich meeting of
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev as
constructive and positive, the press service of the Armenian leader
told Interfax on Wednesday.
"At the meeting the sides expressed their opinions about the current
stage of the negotiating process. At the end the two presidents bound
the foreign ministers together with the cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk
group to continue the negotiations," the press service said.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed the wish that the
cochairmen would continue coordinating the approaches of the sides. At
the meeting they also agreed on a coming visit of the cochairmen of
the OSCE Minsk group to the region.
The press service said that the meeting of the two presidents began in
the presence of the foreign ministers of the two countries, cochairmen
of the Minsk group and personal envoy of the OSCE chairman- in-office
Andzey Kasprzyk. The Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting was followed by talks
between full delegations.
>From Zurich Sargsyan traveled to Davos where he will attend the
official opening of the World Economic Forum.