OSCE Mediators Urge Armenia, Azerbaijan Not to Involve UN in Conflict Settlement

Text of report by Azerbaijani news agency Trend

Baku, 16 February: The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group have called on the [Armenian and Azerbaijani] sides to abandon initiatives, including within the UN General Assembly, which can damage the positive development of the talks over the last few months, Trend reports.

A joint statement says that the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group on the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Yuriy Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Matthew Bryza (USA), met the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in- office on the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Andrzej Kasprzyk, in Paris on 14-15 February.

The co-chairmen expressed the hope that the sides will not miss the opportunity they have had in the last few months of the negotiations and that the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in the near future to eliminate disagreements on the main principles of the future settlement agreement.

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