Today.Az » Politics » Co-chairs and their FM officials to have talks in Baku May 24
23 May 2006 [09:18] - Today.Az
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (US) and Bernard Fassier (France), deputy Russian Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin, US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried as well as French Foreign Ministry director for political affairs Stanislas D’Labule will have talks on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on May 24.
A diplomatic source told APA that the diplomats will arrive in Baku in the afternoon tomorrow. The objective of the talks is to agree on the next round of the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian. The co-chairs propose organizing the meeting of the heads of state within the Black Sea for Dialogue and Partnership Summit scheduled for June 4-6 this year in Romanian capital, Bucharest. Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan had talks within the 116th session of the Council of Europe Committee of Foreign Ministers in Strasbourg on May 19. The Ministers expressed opinions on the co-chairs' new proposals on the details of the settlement of the conflict. The co-chairs and FM officials of their countries will leave Baku for Yerevan after.
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