PRESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA AND RUSSIA SIGN DECLARATION ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
On November 2, following their trilateral meeting at the Russian leader`s Mayendorf residence in Moscow, Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia signed a joint Declaration on Nagorno-Karabakh.
President Dmitry Medvedev acquainted journalists with the text of the Declaration.
The document says: “We have discussed - in an atmosphere of constructiveness - comprehensively and in detail the state and prospects of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through political means and through continuing a direct dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia mediated by Russia, the USA and France in the capacity of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.”
The Presidents “declare that they will contribute to improving the situation in the South Caucasus and ensuring stability and security in the region through finding - on the basis of the principles and norms of the international law as well as the resolutions and documents adopted within this framework - a political solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that will create favorable conditions for economic development and overall cooperation in the region.”
Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev “reiterate the importance of continuing the mediation efforts by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, taking into account their meeting with the sides in Madrid on November 29, 2007 and the following talks, to further develop the basic principles of the political settlement.”
The three leaders agreed that “a peaceful settlement must be accompanied by legally binding international guarantees of all its aspects and stages.”
The Declaration points out that the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia “have agreed to continue the work - including during their following high-level contacts - on coordinating efforts towards political settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and have instructed their foreign ministers to intensify further steps in the talks process in collaboration with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.
The final paragraph of the Declaration says that the Presidents “consider it important to encourage creation of conditions for realizing measures to strengthen confidence in the context of settlement efforts.”
The document was signed in the presence of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
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