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10, 2009
President Sargsyan participated in the summit of the CIS Heads of State in Chisinau
On October 9, President Serzh Sargsyan participated in the summit of the CIS Heads of State in Chisinau.
At the summit discussed were over two dozens documents pertinent to the diminishing of the consequences of the global financial and economic crisis, integration processes in the humanitarian area, issues related to security, as well as documents related to the Charter of the Commonwealth and those aimed at the optimization of the activities in other bodies.
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High-level Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict took place on October 8 in Chisinau at the residence of the US Ambassador to Moldova.
The meeting of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev started in the enlarged format with the participation of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the two countries, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mamedyarov, Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Robert Bradtke (USA) and the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzei Kasprzyk. Presidents Sargsyan and Aliev continued the negotiations tête-à-tête and later were once again joined by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Co-Chairs.
In the meeting, which lasted for three hours, the parties displayed constructive approach expressing readiness to continue negotiations aimed at the peaceful resolution of the conflict.
During the briefing, which took place after the meeting, the Co-Chairs informed the journalists that the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will continue to discuss issues, which so far have not been agreed upon.
The Co-Chairs said that the negotiations are being conducted in the framework of the basic principles of international law and basic documents as well as principles enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act – right of people for self-determination and ban on use of force. They also noted that the NK peace process was not related in any way to the Armenian-Turkish dialogue since those are two different processes with different logic.
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In the capital of Moldova there also took place a tripartite meeting of the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. The Presidents of the three countries discussed issues related to the NK conflict resolution.
At the summit discussed were over two dozens documents pertinent to the diminishing of the consequences of the global financial and economic crisis, integration processes in the humanitarian area, issues related to security, as well as documents related to the Charter of the Commonwealth and those aimed at the optimization of the activities in other bodies.
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High-level Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict took place on October 8 in Chisinau at the residence of the US Ambassador to Moldova.
The meeting of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev started in the enlarged format with the participation of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the two countries, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mamedyarov, Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Robert Bradtke (USA) and the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzei Kasprzyk. Presidents Sargsyan and Aliev continued the negotiations tête-à-tête and later were once again joined by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Co-Chairs.
In the meeting, which lasted for three hours, the parties displayed constructive approach expressing readiness to continue negotiations aimed at the peaceful resolution of the conflict.
During the briefing, which took place after the meeting, the Co-Chairs informed the journalists that the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will continue to discuss issues, which so far have not been agreed upon.
The Co-Chairs said that the negotiations are being conducted in the framework of the basic principles of international law and basic documents as well as principles enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act – right of people for self-determination and ban on use of force. They also noted that the NK peace process was not related in any way to the Armenian-Turkish dialogue since those are two different processes with different logic.
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In the capital of Moldova there also took place a tripartite meeting of the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. The Presidents of the three countries discussed issues related to the NK conflict resolution.