Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents to meet in Paris in October over Karabakh
16.09.2014,
18:28
Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev will have another meeting in October in Paris, chaired by French president Francois Hollande, the press service of the Armenian foreign ministry said following today’s talks between Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian and the visiting U.S. co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick.
YEREVAN, September 16. / ARKA /. Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev will have another meeting in October in Paris, chaired by French president Francois Hollande, the press service of the Armenian foreign ministry said following today’s talks between Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian and the visiting U.S. co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick.
"The sides emphasized the importance of the upcoming meeting, and discussed a set of issues raised at the previous meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which took place on September 4 at Newport (Wales) at the initiative of U.S. secretary of state John Kerry", the Armenian ministry reported.
The sides discussed also a wide range of issues related to the process of peaceful settlement of the Karabakh problem, it said.
Earlier a similar meeting was initiated by Russian president Vladimir Putin on August 10 in Russian Sochi. That meeting was said to have helped ease the tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh, aggravated in late July and early August. -0-
