Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA) and Jacques Faure (France) and the special representative of OSCE chairman Andrzej Kasprzyk, press service of the Azerbaijani president reports.
The sides discussed the state and prospects of settling the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
They made a declaration on visiting the region. They noted that they had visited Yerevan and Baku, met Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev.
The co-chairs continued discussions of fulfillment of obligations agreed on at a meeting of Aliyev and Sargsyan in Sochi on January 23. The OSCE officials expressed concerns over incidents at the line of contact and urged sides to be tolerant.
The co-chairs discussed development of military and civil contacts, improvement of trust and realization of the cease-fire agreement reached in 1994. They emphasized importance of preserving Armenian and Azerbaijani cultural and historic values.
The OSCE MG co-chairs plan further negotiations of the conflict with foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
