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Bernard Fassier: â€œAzerbaijani and Armenian Presidents may meet early in Mayâ€

06 April 2009 18:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Viktoria Dementieva â€“ APA. French co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier has started his visit to Azerbaijan. APA reports that Bernard Fassier noted that they had kept the issues presidents discussed in Zurich meeting in the focus of attention during the meetings held in Yerevan. According to him, the main goal of his visit to Baku is to meet Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov within the framework of preparation for Azerbaijani and Armenian presidentsâ€™ next meeting: â€œAzerbaijani and Armenian Presidents may meet early in May. The negotiation process develops at an accelerated pace. The co-chairs very often visit the region and these visits are of great importance from the standpoint of achieving the mutual understanding between the conflict parties. Itâ€™s impossible to reach the mutual understanding immediately. Sometimes the discussions delay and it makes the parties meet twice or thriceâ€.

Bernard Fassier stated that all three co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group would revisit the region on April 20-22. The diplomat did not want to take stance on the opening of Turkey-Armenia borders and his speech in Vienna. â€œOpening of borders and Nagorno Karabakh conflict are different negotiation processes and I donâ€™t want to comment on it. OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs did not say anything new in the forum held in Viennaâ€.

Bernard Fassier noted that the regulation of the conflict like Nagorno Karabagh was enough complicated process: â€œI ask the Mass Media not to aggravate this process. We are friends of Azerbaijan and Armenia and the works we are doing serve for the achievement of peace and stability in the regionâ€. Bernard Fassier added that he would answer all the questions at the press conference after the meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on April 7.