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By Sara Rajabova

Following the discussions in Washington, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have mulled the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Moscow.

Grigory Karasin, Russian deputy foreign minister discussed the settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with co-chairs James Warlick (U.S.), Pierre Andrieu (France) and Igor Popov (Russia) and personal representative of the OSCE chairman on Nagorno-Karabakh Andrzej Kasprzyk on July 13, Russian foreign ministry reported.

“During the talks, the issues on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict normalization were discussed,” the ministry said.

Earlier, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs gathered in Washington on July 6 to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Warlick said the co-chairs met with Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and other senior representatives of the U.S. government.

The Minsk Group co-chairs also plan to visit the South Caucasus region later this month. They intend to mull organizing a meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents.

The latest meeting between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan took place in Paris, France last October through the French president's initiative.

The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents periodically meet to discuss the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the sidelines of negotiations. However, the talks have so far failed to produce any genuine results, given the Armenian side's inclination to remain belligerent rather than engage in peace-making.

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

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