Important progress made at Armenian-Azerbaijani talks

FRANFKURT-ON-MAINE. November 23. KAZINFORM Important progress was made at the Munich negotiations of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents on Karabakh settlement on Sunday, French Cochairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier said; Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.

Also, the meeting exposed certain difficulties in the negotiations, he said.

In the words of Fassier, the French, Russian and U.S. cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group had agreed to prepare another meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders. He did not say when the new meeting might take place.

Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan did not make comments after the Munich event.

That was the eighth round of their direct negotiations in the past 18 months. Four meetings were held in Russia.

The sides are coordinating a framework agreement based on the Madrid Principles, which were signed by the cochairmen in November 2007. Once the framework agreement is ready, the sides will start to draft a fundamental political settlement document; Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.

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