Armenian side assesses results of Zurich meeting as
constructive and positive
29-01-2009 17:00:00 | Armenia | Politics
YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting of the Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan and the Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev took place at the Radisson Hotel in Zurich on January 28.
The Zurich meeting of the negotiation process on the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement was the third one
between S. Sargsyan and I. Aliyev. It started with the
participation of the Foreign Ministers of the two countries
Edward Nalandian and Elmar Mamedyarov, the Co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier and Matthew Bryza,
and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Then the two presidents continued negotiations in the
tete-a-tete format. After a one-hour tete-a-tete talk, the
negotiations continued in an enlarged format.
The Armenian side assessed the results of the Zurich
meeting as constructive and positive. During the meeting the
sides presented their opinions on the current stage of the
negotiation process. As a result of the negotiations, the
Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents instructed the foreign
ministers to continue the negotiation process in cooperation
with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. The presidents
expressed a desire that the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
will proceed with work on coordination of the approaches of the
sides. An agreement on the forthcoming regional visit of the
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group was reached.
According to the RA presidential press service, after the
negotiations Serzh Sargsyan left for Davos to attend the opening
ceremony of the World Economic Forum.