Heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev had a meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Chisinau on October 8.
The meeting began with participation of foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Robert Bradtke (USA) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
The president then continued the conversation tete-a-tete, upon completion of which foreign minister and mediators joined them again.
In a three-hour conversation Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev showed constructive approach to continue negotiations over a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
After the meeting, co-chairs of OSCE Minsk told reporters that the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan during the meeting discussed the issues on which there has been no understanding so far. According to mediators, the talks are continuing in line with the principles of international law and basic documents: right to self-determination, use of force and within the principles enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act of the foreign ministers of OSCE. The mediators also stressed that the process of the Karabakh settlement is not related to the Armenian-Turkish dialogue, and these two processes have different logic, press service of the Armenian President reports.
