Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian (left) with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on Tuesday in Brussels
BRUSSELS””Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov met on Tuesday to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict peace process.
The meeting, which was held on the initiative and presence of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Igor Popov, Stéphane Visconti and Richard Hoagland, which was attended by Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, was the first such meeting since a flare up border tensions escalated in recent weeks.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry reported that during the meeting discussions were held on the modalities of advancement of the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiating process.
Nalbandian reportedly underscored the importance of stabilization of the situation on the Line of Contact and in this regard emphasized the necessity to implement the agreements, reached during the Vienna and St. Petersburg Summits.
The Co-Chairs asked the ministers to convey to the presidents their proposal on organizing a summit during the course of this year. An agreement was reached to convene the next meeting between the Ministers in September in New York in the margins of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The ministry provided no other insight into the discussions, ahead of which, Nalbadian blasted Baku for failing to adhere to previously reached agreements and continuing to advance its military aggression against Artsakh positions.
Speaking at an informal ministerial summit of the OSCE earlier in the day in Mauerbach, Austria, Nalbandian urged the international community to take more “tangible measure to curb Azerbaijan.”
