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OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to hold consultations in Moscow and visit the region in the near future

05 July 2011 13:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Viktoria Dementyeva â€“ APA. â€œThe Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) met separately on July 4 with Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and with the OSCE Minsk Group to discuss the status of the ongoing peace process to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,â€ says the statement released by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, APA reports.

"The Co-Chairs briefed on the outcome of the June 24 meeting in Kazan, in which
Russian President Medvedev hosted Armenian President Sargsian and Azerbaijani
President Aliyev, and they discussed the next steps required to finalize the
Basic Principles as the framework for a comprehensive peace settlement.

Although the sides did not reach final agreement on the Basic Principles at
Kazan, progress was made. The outcome of Kazan, including confirmation by
the sides that they will continue to seek a negotiated settlement, provides
momentum that the parties should use to reach agreement on the Principles as
soon as possible. The remaining differences should not prevent the sides
from accepting the Basic Principles and moving on to the treaty-drafting
phase of the peace process. As Presidents Medvedev, Sarkozy, and Obama
remarked in their May 26 joint statement at Deauville, further delay only
calls into question the commitment of the sides to reach an agreement.

The Co-Chairs plan to hold consultations in Moscow and to visit the region in
the near future."