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By Rashid Shirinov

Russia, the U.S. and France are ready to host another meeting of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia or their Foreign Ministers in the framework of the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Ambassadors of the Co-Chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group noted in a joint statement.

The statement reads that the Co-Chairs of the OSCE MG, Ambassadors Igor Popov of Russia, James Warlick of the U.S., and Pierre Andrieu of France, and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, met separately with the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

“Our governments are prepared to host another meeting of the Presidents or Foreign Ministers at the appropriate time. We plan to visit the region in the near future,” they said.

American Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick noted that he is waiting for progress on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“Meetings with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have concluded in New York. We look forward to progress on key issues,” he wrote in Twitter account following the meeting.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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