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Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers to meet in Athens today

01 December 2009 10:26 (UTC +04:00)

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Robert Bradtke (USA), Yuriy Merzlyakov (Russia) and Bernard Fassier (France), as well as foreign policy officials of the co-chair company â€“ US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, Russian and French foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and Bernard Kouchner are also expected to participate at the meeting. The co-chairs held separate meetings with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Athens. Personal representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk also participated at the meeting. Then the ministers attended working dinner. The sides discussed opportunities for making statement on Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE 17th session.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov also said they attended a meeting and working dinner on November 30. He said they held another one working meeting with the co-chairs Tuesday morning. The minister said the sides agreed to make a statement on the results of the meeting. Kasprzyk said it was one of the working meetings organized within the OSCE ministerial meeting.

Special representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly for Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Georgia Goran Lenmarker will meet with Azerbaijanâ€™s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Tuesday. Lenmarker met with the Armenian foreign minister on November 30.