Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan may meet on 8 May when they will both be in Moscow to attend celebrations to mark the end of WWII.
The possibility of a meeting of the two presidents was discussed yesterday by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, mediating a settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,Armenia Todayreported.
In a shortstatementpublished on theOSCE website, the co-chairs said they had met in Moscow ’to discuss recent developments, including high level meetings in Washington, Baku, and Moscow’.
The co-chairs ’consider these meetings as providing a new impetus to the advancement of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of the Madrid Principles. The co-chairs will travel to Vienna in early May to brief the Minsk Group on these efforts,’ the statement said.
The three co-chairing countries are Russia, the USA and France.
Inseparate remarksyesterday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko said that Moscow was considering Azerbaijan’s recent proposal to include Turkey as a co-chair of the Minsk Group and Iran’s offer to mediate in the conflict settlement.
’We are actively involved in the contacts on this issue,’ Nesterenko said yesterday in a statement published on the RussianForeign Ministry website. ’A certain number of proposals have recently been made. We are studying them. But in order to make appropriate assessments, we need to contact all those who are involved in the negotiating process to find out their attitudes towards these issues. That’s what we are doing now. In some time after our contacts with our colleagues we will be able to give detailed explanations.’
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