MINSK GROUP PREPARING TALKS BETWEEN AZERI, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS

Interfax, Russia
April 9 2013

The co-chairs of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe’s Minsk Group are planning to organize talks between the Azeri
and Armenian foreign ministers in order to facilitate the settlement
of the Karabakh conflict, the mediators said in a statement posted
on the OSCE website on Tuesday.

It says that during their recent visit to the conflict region
they met with the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and the breakaway
Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Azeri and Armenian presidents reaffirmed their adherence to the
peace process and expressed their readiness to participate in it at
the highest level, according to the posting.

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