YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs hope that in the near future the Armenian and Azeri Presidents will be able to come to an agreement on the most important provisions of the basic principles of Nagorno Karabakh settlement not coordinated yet. According to the report of the OSCE official website, on January 28 in Zurich the Co-chairs got acquainted with the opinions of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on the ways of completing the Nagorno Karabakh peaceful settlement basic principles on the basis of Madrid proposals. "The Co-chairs agreed to work with the Foreign Ministers for working out proposals regarding disagreements remaining between the sides over the most important issues within the framework of the Basic Principles and to present them to the two Presidents. The Co-chais hope that the sides will be able to overcome the disagreements in the near future to ensure a peaceful agreement, which is better for all sides than the status quo. Their goal is a fair and balanced agreement based on the principles of territorial integrity, self-determination, and non-use of force stipulated by the final Helsinki document," the statement read.

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