CO-CHAIRS OF OSCE MG ROUND UP VISIT TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Vestnik Kavkaza
May 14 2012
Russia
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA) and Jacques Faure
(France) and the special representative of OSCE chairman Andrzej
Kasprzyk, press service of the Azerbaijani president reports.
The sides discussed the state and prospects of settling the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
They made a declaration on visiting the region. They noted that
they had visited Yerevan and Baku, met Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and
Ilham Aliyev.
The co-chairs continued discussions of fulfillment of obligations
agreed on at a meeting of Aliyev and Sargsyan in Sochi on January 23.
The OSCE officials expressed concerns over incidents at the line of
contact and urged sides to be tolerant.
The co-chairs discussed development of military and civil contacts,
improvement of trust and realization of the cease-fire agreement
reached in 1994. They emphasized importance of preserving Armenian
and Azerbaijani cultural and historic values.
The OSCE MG co-chairs plan further negotiations of the conflict with
foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia.