OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS TO VISIT BAKU
As the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry reported, the aim of the visit by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group is to conduct consultations with the Baku officials concerning the settlement of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. They plan to meet with a number of the Azerbaijan leaders.
The co-chairmen will arrive in Baku from Armenia where they stay now in the context of their Trans-Caucasian tour.
As Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said, "I would not say that the co-chairmen would arrive with some new proposals. Since they did not visit the region in the course of the last six months, the sides will only exchange opinions.'
Before the visit of the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group to the region, special representative of the European Union for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie said at the news conference in the Azerbaijan capital that there were "new moments" with regard to the settlement of the conflict, which the co-chairmen will discuss with the sides to the conflict. This visit will be very important," he added. "I am glad that both Yerevan and Baku support the activity of the Minsk Group co-chairmen who have done a great work," he said.
The EU spokesman did not specify these "new moments." However, the official position of Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert has not changed today, at the tenth anniversary of the armistice. Baku is ready to give Nagorny Karabakh the broadest autonomy, but it is flatly against the independence of the territory.
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