Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Thursday, September 8 met with Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Désir in France, Yerkir.am reports.
Besides bilateral ties, the two discussed the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stressing the need for accelerating the process of substantive negotiations over the issue.
Also Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs – Igor Popov of Russia, James Warlick of the United States and Pierre Andrieu of France – and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk in Moscow to discuss the conflict in Karabakh.
At the meeting, the diplomats discussed issues concerning the settlement of the conflict, including the implementation of agreements reached at summits in Saint Petersburg and Vienna.
Also, they weighed in on the current situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan.
