KARABAKH ISSUE DISCUSSED IN AZERBAIJAN
Support A1+!Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group Yuri Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier and Steven Mann met the heads of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan. The meeting lasted 1.5 hours but no statement followed, agency “Trend” reports.
Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia and France and assistant of the US State Secretary Daniel Fried also participated in the meeting. The co-chairs will meet the President of Azerbaijan today after which they will make a statement about the course of the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
The sides are to take decisive steps for the final settlement of the conflict, but final clarification of the negotiation process will be done at the end of the week, Daniel Fried announced. He reminded that this is the third time he has visited Azerbaijan for the last 6 months. “My aim is to find ways for the settlement of the conflict. The population of the region has the right of peace.” Daniel Fried underlined that “the states are to take steps in that direction”. “President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev and President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan are able to settle the conflict peacefully,” the American diplomat thinks.