Armenia evaluates meeting as “useful”
Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliev will most probably meet again in July and the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will aim towards organizing that meeting in St. Petersburg.
Armenian and Azeri presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliev met again at the residence of the US Ambassador to the Czech Republic after Serzh Sargsyan's arrival from the airport.
The meeting in Prague marks Serzh Sargsyan's fourth meeting with his Azeri counterpart for high-level talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after taking office as president of Armenia.
The Sargsyan-Aliev meeting began with the participation of the Foreign Ministers of both countries Edward Nalbandyan and Elmar Mammedyarov, OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Matthew Bryza, Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassie, as well as the Personal Representative of the OSCE acting chairman Anjey Kasprshik.
The Armenian and Azeri presidents continued the one-on-one talks, which lasted for more than two hours. According to the press service of the RA President, "the Armenian side evaluated the meeting in Prague as useful and it gave both sides the opportunity to further specify their approaches on the basic principles of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as bring the positions on some points closer. The Foreign Ministers of both countries were assigned to continue working on coming to terms on the basic principles for the conflict settlement based on Madrid proposals with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and prepare both countries for the next meeting on the presidential level."
After the meeting the Co-Chairs answered journalists' questions.
According to US Co-Chair Matthew Bryza, Sargsyan and Aliev discussed the basic principles for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.
Serzh Sargsyan will have other meetings as well and will speak at the European Union's "Eastern Cooperation" summit on the sidelines of his two-day working visit to the Czech Republic.
