Lajcak: Mammadyarov and Mnatsakanyan to meet in Bratislava soon

A meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan will be held soon through the mediation of the OSCE chairperson-in-office in Bratislava, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajcak told Voice of America.

"During the meeting the parties will discuss the prospects for the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” the Slovak minister said.

"I expect to receive the foreign ministers of the two countries soon in Bratislava," Trend cited him as saying.

Lajcak noted that he highly appreciates the efforts being made by the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders to resolve the conflict.

"During the year, we saw positive signals, dialogue between leaders and at the ministerial level. At the same time, disturbing incidents were observed on the contact line, which led to human losses. However, now the situation seems to be stable," the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office said.

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, in turn, said that the mediators, represented by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, continue to actively participate in the negotiations. Serious progress may be achieved first of all thanks to the political decision of the leaders of the two countries.

"Of course, the positive attitude, the positive dynamics that we observed during the meeting in Dushanbe in September 2018 have not yet turned into real progress in the conflict settlement," Thomas Greminger noted.