The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Robert Bradtke (USA), Igor Popov (Russia), Jacques Faure (France) and the personal assistant of the OSCE Chairman Andrzej Kasprzyk have issued a statement urging the parties to the Karabakh conflict to return to negotiations, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official OSCE website.
The co-chairs of the OSCE and the personal assistant of the OSCE held separate meetings in New York with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov.
During the meetings the co-development in the region in recent years was discussed with the ministers. The latter were urged to return to the essence of the negotiation process on Nagorno-Karabakh. The co-chairs expressed their concern at the lack of tangible progress in the recent months.
According to media reports, Nalbandian refuses to hold meeting with Mammadyarov.
