Fresh talks to seek notable progress for changing status quo: Baku

PanARMENIAN.Net - Another meeting on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is expected to be held in June to achieve significant progress in changing the status quo, said Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, local media report.

He made the remarks at the North Atlantic Council as part of an Azerbaijan-NATO meeting at NATO headquarters on Tuesday, May 31.

According to him, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and the entire world community consider the status quo “unreliable and unacceptable.”

The Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents met in Vienna on May 16, with top diplomats from Russia, France and the United States mediating the talks as the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs.

Mammadyarov will on May 31 meet with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in Brussels, the U.S. mediator, Ambassador James Warlick said.

Meanwhile, Armenian foreign policy chief Edward Nalbandian did not exclude separate meetings between the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers in June.