OSCE Minsk group co-chairs
They arrived in Karabakh today by car from Baku, crossing the Armenian-Azerbaijani front line.
Bako Sahakyan, president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic, received OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Robert Bradtke (USA), Igor Popov (Russian Federation) and Bernard Fassier (France), Public Radio of Armenia reports.
They discussed a wide range of issues related to the Karabakh conflict settlement.
The parties said that any military solution to the conflict was absolutely unacceptable.
Bako Sahakyan said that recent frequent violations of the cease-fire regime by Azerbaijan caused concern and posed a serious threat to regional peace and stability and to the OSCE Minsk Group's efforts to find a peaceful settlement, according to Public Radio of Armenia.
Sahakyan urged the co-chairs to bring Azerbaijan into a "constructive field".
Azerbaijan says that recent exchanges of fire and clashes on the contact line separating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have been provoked by Armenia.
Bako Sahakyan and the Minsk Group co-chairs said that the Karabakh issue should be settled within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group and that any attempt by Azerbaijan to transfer the issue to other instances would not contribute to the settlement of the conflict.
This was presumably an indirect reference to a resolution on the conflict tabled by Azerbaijan at the forthcoming UN General Assembly.
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