Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan agreed to continue negotiations on the Karabakh conflict following their meeting in Munich on 22 November.
The meeting can be considered a step forward, like previous meetings, Bernard Fassier, French co-chairman of the OSCE’s Minsk Group, told reporters. He said the meeting lasted more than four hours and the presidents discussed issues which had not yet been coordinated as well as new ones.
"Some important progress has been reached," Fassier told reporters, according to Reuters news agency. "At the same time we have identified some difficulties."
Fassier did not give more details of the talks, saying they were confidential. He did say, however, that negotiations would continue at the level of the two countries' foreign ministers whom the presidents have instructed to work on outstanding issues. The ministers will next meet in in Athens in early December during the meeting of the council of foreign ministers of OSCE member states.
Fassier said he and his co-mediators from the United States and Russia would start preparing the next meeting of the presidents, without specifying when it might take place. "We hope for additional progress in the following weeks and beginning of next year," Reuters reported him as saying.
The presidents' meeting lasted longer than scheduled.
Lala B.
News.Az