The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev met in Vienna Tuesday, November 19 for the first time in two years.

The meeting was later joined by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs who afterwards made a statement.

According to the statement, during the tête-à-tête conversation, followed by a working meeting with the co-chairs, the leaders of the two countries’ discussed a wide range of issues related to the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

As the presidential press service reported, Sargsyan and Aliyev agreed to promote further negotiations to achieve a peaceful solution and instructed Foreign Ministers to continue working with the co-chairs to achieve the goal. “A new meeting was agreed on in the months to come. Working meetings with Ministers will be organized on the sidelines of the Kyiv-hosted Foreign Ministers Council session December 5-6. The co-chairs plan to visit the South Caucasus by the yearend,” the statement said.

No further details of the meeting were disclosed, nor did the Presidents provide any comments.

As Hraparak daily said earlier citing own sources, at the Vienna-hosted meeting, Armenian side will insist on Karabakh’s involvement in the conflict settlement negotiations.