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OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs release statement on Moscow meeting

22 July 2009 09:37 (UTC +04:00)

"Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsian held a tete-a-tete discussion and extensive talks with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on July 17 in Moscow. On July 18, the Presidents were received by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The discussions were held in a frank and constructive atmosphere that allowed the sides to discuss at length and in detail proposed formulations to overcome their remaining differences on the few elements of the Basic Principles that have yet to be conceptually agreedâ€, said the Co-Chairs. â€œThe Minsk Group Co-Chairs informed the two Presidents they will hold a working session at the end of July in Krakow, Poland, to prepare an updated version of the Madrid Document in accordance with the ’L’Aquila Declaration’ of Presidents Barack Obama, Dmitri Medvedev and Nicholas Sarkozy. The Co-Chairs intend to visit the region in September to assess the possibilities for a subsequent meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents either at the end of September or the beginning of October."