OSCE envoys, top Armenian, Azeri diplomats to meet in late December

PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office will discuss the possibility of holding talks with Armenian and Azeri Presidents at a meeting with the foreign policy chiefs of both countries in Hamburg, Germany, the OSCE press office said Wednesday, October 26.

At a summit slated for December, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov and the OSCE mediators will discuss the details of a possible meeting between Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev.

On Monday, the Co-chairs met with Nagorno Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan to discuss the settlement of the conflict.

Sargsyan and Aliyev met on June 20 in Saint Petersburg to address the conflict, with Russian President Vladimir Putin mediating the talks. The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents confirmed their commitment to the implementation of agreements reached at a Vienna-hosted meeting on May 16. To that end, they agreed to increase the number of international observers in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone. Also, they expressed satisfaction that the ceasefire was now holding. Prior to that, a meeting between both leaders was organized on May 16 in Vienna, with top diplomats from the MG co-chairing countries hosting the summit.