OSCE MG hopes to hold presidential meeting in near future
By Gunay Camal
The U.S., Russia and France, the three co-chair states of the OSCE Minsk Group, are committed to organizing another meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue as soon as possible.
The American c-chairman of the OSCE MG, James Warlick made the remark while talking to Trend on July 6.
Warlick further added that there is no date fixed for the next presidential meeting yet.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan twice in the past month and half first in Vienna in May, and the second time in St. Petersburg in June along with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Experts have positively assessed the intensification of talks, along with the signs of more constructive spirit of the talks.
For over the past 20 years the OSCE-led Minsk Group is dealing with the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which emerged in 1988 as a result of Armenia's illegal territorial claims on Azerbaijan.
As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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