Azeri Foreign Minister talks Karabakh with OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Tuesday, May 31 met with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in Brussels, local media report.

“At the meeting, the diplomats discussed the results of the Vienna-hosted meeting, held to prepare for the June summit aimed at finding a solution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict as soon as possible,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev said.

Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents met in Vienna on May 16, with top diplomats from Russia, France and the United States mediating the summit as OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs. The sides agreed to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism. The Presidents also agreed to the expansion of the existing Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. Also, they agreed to continue the exchange of data on missing persons under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Commenting on the cancellation of a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers, allegedly scheduled for June, Hajiyev said “there haven’t been proposals or plans for such a meeting in the first place.”

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will meet with the Minsk group mediators on June 2.