"The current regional visit of the OSCE Minsk Group had the purpose to hear the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents' opinion on the Madrid proposals," OSCE MG U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza.

"The mediators set no time limitation to Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev. As you know, we visited Stepanakert to hear the position of the NKR leadership. We think it's very important, since the fate of the people is being determined," he said.

For his part, French Co-chair Bernard Fassier that the document at the table is the best one that ever existed. "It embraces the demands of all sides but doesn't favor either of them. If the Presidents agree to the base principles we can proceed to development of an agreement, what can, however, take long time," he said.

At that he noted that there will be no interim agreement. "We are awaiting approval of the base principles by the Presidents," Amb. Fassier said.