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The French Embassy in Azerbaijan has disseminated the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European issues of its country following the Paris meeting (June 26) of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign affairs ministers within the process of peaceful settlement of Nagorno Garabagh conflict.

The statement says that in early July the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are to make a trip to Baku, Yerevan and Nagorno Garabagh for organization of the next round of negotiations between Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders in Moscow in mid-July.

The statement also says that the Paris meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian FMs, Elmar Mammadyarov and Edvard Nalbandyan respectively, took place on the MG co-chairs“initiative.

“For the purpose to study opportunities of continuation of the quite positive St.Petersburg meeting in early June between president Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan both FMs with constructive mood met first each separately with the mediators and then held a meeting between each other with co-chairs” involvement. These negotiations allowed strengthening achieved progress and define new areas of possible advances. The co-chairs made new compromise proposals on these areas,“the statement says.

Yesterday following Baku talk with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev the Azerbaijani leader claimed that the St.Petersburg meeting with participation of the Russian president between him and President Sargsyan created a favorable atmosphere for further negotiations.

“In the future we also hope for active participation of Russia as mediator and neighbour of Azerbaijan in settlement of this difficult question. Today the negotiation process enters, I would say, in final stage.

Today we emphasized that the round of negotiations in St.Petersburg was sufficiently effective this month. We managed to take some more steps ahead. Of course, there are great expectations in Azerbaijan as well as maybe in Armenia and in the world that the conflict would be settled as faster as possible, but we are moving forward. It raises optimism and strengthens the negotiation process.

Despite the fact that since 1994 when a ceasefire decision was made the conflict has not been settled, nevertheless, today there are more hopes for conflict settlement than several years ago. That is why in the spirit of constructive co-operation and in the spirit of understanding of priorities and interests of all the parties, I think that we are going to achieve the settlement. We wish that, we strive to that and do our best to obtain that as faster as possible,“President Aliyev said.

In his turn, Medvedev stated that Russia was ready to help in the settlement process further and was ready to ensure its mediator services to promote the process to approach to the successful end.

He also stated of grounds for a hope that this difficult and quite long conflict had chances to be settled.

“In the opinion of the Russian Federation the participants of negotiations (I mean Azerbaijan and Armenia) are ready to solve gradually the disagreements existing in their positions on separate issues and move forward. This conflict has all chances to be settled in quite close historical prospect. And Russia together with other countries will do its best to obtain settlement of the conflict in a maximum effective way,” President Medvedev said.