Interfax, Russia
May 15 2009

Karabakh talks continue in "very serious form" – French mediator

BAKU May 15

The negotiating process on the resolution of the Armenian-Azeri
conflict is taking place "in a very serious form," said Bernard
Fassier, French co-chairman of the OSCE (Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group.

"I cannot disclose the details of the current talks, but this process
continues in a very serious form," Fassier told journalists upon his
arrival in Baku from Yerevan, where he earlier held talks with
Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsian and Foreign Minister Eduard
Nalbandian.

In Baku, he is planning to meet with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev,
Fassier said.

Fassier’s visit to Azerbaijan will end on Saturday, he said. "From
here I will go to either Ankara or Paris. I might go to Ankara for
holding consultations," the French co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group
said.

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