“Preamble has been agreed upon”
The 2.5-hour meeting between Presidents Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia, Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia is over in Sochi. During the trilateral meeting the Presidents discussed issues related to the Karabakh conflict settlement.
Before the meeting the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs introduced to the parties the updated version of the Madrid Principles which is still unknown to two publics.
"Armenia and Azerbaijan will present their proposals regarding the document on the Karabakh conflict settlement; the preamble of the document has already been agreed upon," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists in Sochi following the meeting.
"The main achievement is that the sides agreed to continue talks and reconsider all issues unacceptable for resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. They will submit their concrete ideas, concrete formulations, which will be applied to the text," he said.
The Presidents will meet with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs at the airport in a few hours.
Recall that this was the fourth meeting of the three presidents.
The last meeting was held in October, 2009 in Chisinau. After the first one in November, 2008 in Moscow a Mayendorf Declaration was adopted, calling the parties to resume the dialogue between the countries and settle Karabakh conflict.
