Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan
The details of the meeting were announced in a statement on the French Foreign Ministry web site.
“At the invitation of the three countries that co-chair the OSCE Minsk Group on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (the USA, France and Russia), the heads of state of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet, for the sixth time this year, at the residence of the French consul general in Munich on 22 November," the statement says.
"The basic principles of a fair, durable and peaceful settlement of this conflict were proposed jointly to the sides in Madrid, at the end of November 2007, by the French and Russian foreign ministers and the US assistant secretary of state," the statement continues.
It recalls that in July the French, American and Russian presidents said in a statement at the G8 summit in L'Aquila that the Madrid proposals remained on the negotiating table and called on the sides to finalize them as soon as possible.
The L'Aquila declaration recalled the basic elements of the proposals, the French statement said. They are:
- the return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control
- an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh providing guarantees for security and self-governance
- a corridor linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh
- future determination of the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh through a legally binding expression of will
- the right of all internally displaced persons and refugees to return to their former places of residence
- international security guarantees that would include a peacekeeping operation.
"These are the principles that the mediators are trying to have approved by the parties to the conflict," the statement on the French Foreign Ministry web site concluded.
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