Armenia says wants stability on Karabakh contact line

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian has stressed the importance of stabilizing the situation on the Nagorno Karabakh contact line and implementing agreements reached at summits in Vienna and Saint Petersburg.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri leader Ilham 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 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 Minsk Group co-chairing countries hosting the summit.

Nalbandian was meeting his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on Tuesday, July 11 to discuss the conflict in Karabakh.

Also participating in the meeting were OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov of Russia, Stéphane Visconti of France, and Richard Hoagland of the United States, as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The co-chairs asked the diplomats to convey to the presidents their proposal to organize a summit during the year.

Besides, the parties agreed to hold another ministerial meeting September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.