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By Sara Rajabova

U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group will meet with the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers on April 4.

James Warlick wrote on his Twitter page on April 2 that he is leaving for consultations at the OSCE headquarters in Vienna.

Later, Warlick plans to visit Moscow on April 4 m for meetings with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

"Leaving today for consultations at OSCE in Vienna. Then to Moscow for Friday meetings with the FMs of Armenia and Azerbaijan. NKpeace," he wrote.

Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandian will meet in Moscow on April 4 in preparation for a meeting of the two countries' presidents in the near future.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.