10:00, 9 July 2009

Armenian President is ready to meet his Azerbaijani counterpart

As reported by co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has consented to have another meeting with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliev on Karabakh settlement, as planned, in Moscow on July 17.

Bernard Facier, co-chair from the French party, has noted that should Mr Aliev agree, the meeting will tale place as planned. "It'll be already the sixth meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan during the last 13 months, unprecedented in the history of negotiations," said the diplomat.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are now visiting the Transcaucasia. Today, they left Yerevan for Baku.
Mr Facier hopes that their meetings in Azerbaijan will be same constructive as in Armenia, the "Panorama.am" reports.

Yuri Merzliakov, co-chair from the Russian party, also agrees that "in recent months, positive dynamics has appeared in the talks", as reported by the ITAR-TASS.