On March 16, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian who was in Paris on a working visit had a meeting with the OSCE Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier, Robert Bradtke and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the personal representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

In the course of the meeting, they discussed the recent developments in the negotiations on the settlement of Artsakh (Nagrono Karabakh) issue, the possibility of the Co-Chairs’ upcoming visit to the region.

Co-Chairs informed Edward Nalbandian on the results of their meeting with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan on March 5 in Paris.
Edward Nalbandian attracted Co-Chairs’ attention to the continuous efforts of the Azerbaijani side aimed at the distortion of the essence and logic of negotiation process. He underlined that that activities had a negative impact on the atmosphere of negotiations and hamper their progress.

Touching upon the participation of Nagorno Karabakh in the negotiations Foreign Minister of Armenia stressed that the settlement of the issue is impossible without the direct participation of NKR authorities in the process.