The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, released the following statement:
"The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation) traveled June 6-9 to Baku, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Yerevan. Joined by Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the co-chairs met separately with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, and the de facto authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh. In preparation for the upcoming meeting of Presidents Medvedev, Aliyev, and Sargsyan, the co-chairs discussed with the sides steps to finalize and endorse the Basic Principles as a framework for a comprehensive peace settlement, as urged by Presidents Medvedev, Obama, and Sarkozy in their May 26 joint statement in Deauville, France.
On June 7, the co-chairs crossed the Line of Contact by foot in the Agdam region. This was the third such crossing by the co-chairs in ten months - as many as were completed in the previous sixteen years combined - demonstrating that the sides can cooperate to implement and observe fully the 1994 ceasefire. In that regard, the co-chairs called upon the parties to avoid any provocative actions or statements that might undermine the negotiating process during this critical period."
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