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OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issue statement on Prague meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents

08 May 2009 08:14 (UTC +04:00)

The statement says the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs organized a meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsian, with their Foreign Ministers, on 7 May at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador in Prague.
â€œThis meeting of the two Presidents is the fourth in less than a year. The Co-Chairs are of the opinion that each of these meetings has brought the sides closer to a breakthrough. The meeting held on May 7 marks significant progress in that regard.
The Presidents welcomed the Co-Chairs’ plan to intensify further their shuttle diplomacy to assemble all the elements required for a breakthrough. The Co-Chairs look forward to their next trip to the region and to prepare a further summit, as proposed to the Presidents, in St. Petersburg in early June. The Co-Chairs expect that these coming meetings will allow for the concrete realization of a breakthrough on the Basic Principles by the end of the year,â€ the statement says.