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10, 2009
The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan met with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev in Chisinau
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.
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.