Armenian and Azerbaijan presidents agreed to give fresh push to further negotiations on peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict

YEREVAN, November 19. / ARKA /. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, agreed to give a fresh push to further negotiations to reach a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict,   the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs said in a statement following a Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting in Vienna today.

The meeting held at Palais Coburg hotel was attended also by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Jacques Faure (France) and James Warlick (USA), as well as by  Andrzej Kasprzyk, the  personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in -office.

According to the statement, the presidents agreed to give impetus to further negotiations aimed at reaching a peaceful settlement , and instructed their foreign ministers to continue the work together with the Minsk Group co-chairs  on the basis of what has been done so far in order to intensify the peace process.

"During a private face to face meeting and the following working meeting with the foreign ministers and Minsk group co-chairs the presidents discussed a wide range of issues related to the settlement of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict,” the statement says.

The co-chairs also said that the presidents agreed to meet again in the coming months. As a next step, the co-chairs will organize meetings with foreign ministers of the two countries "in the fringes" of an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting, to be held December 5-6 in Kiev.

The mediators are planning to visit the region before the end of this year. -0-