James Warlick, the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, said today that he discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and was planning to talk about the peace process with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Trend reports.
The co-chair assured that he would visit the region as often as needed to encourage a settlement of the conflict. He reminded that the presidents had not met for about two years.
Warlick noted that it would be better for the sides of the conflict to have multilateral negotiations and find constructive ways to move forward.
Commenting on the basic principles of settling the conflict, Warlick said that this was the topic the presidents should discuss. The US official believes that replacing France with the EU as the co-chair of the OSCE MG was unnecessary because the process depended on the political will of its participants.
Warlick reminded that he had worked in Afghanistan and had been negotiating a bilateral security agreement.
