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.

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