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On Oct. 29, Ambassador of Germany to Armenia Rainer Morel praised the meeting of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan held Oct. 27 in Paris, Mediamax said.
“We were very happy with the initiative of the President of France to organize a meeting, but we shouldn’t be too optimistic and expect great results from one meeting,” said the ambassador, speaking at a joint press conference with the British ambassador. “It is important that the dialogue between the leaders continues, and it’s already for the third time that they met this year.”
Rainer Morel said that the two leaders “should try to engage in meaningful negotiations.”
The ambassador said that Germany supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group and believes that this is the only acceptable format for the continuation of negotiations.
British ambassador Katherine Leach, in turn, welcomed the fact that the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan began to meet more often.
Joint meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group took place in Paris Oct. 27, the official website of the Azerbaijani president said earlier.
The meeting took place at the initiative of French President Francois Hollande. Then there was a meeting of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.
Thereafter, a joint meeting of French President Francois Hollande, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group took place.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are currently holding peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four U.N. Security Council resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
During a visit to the South Caucasus region in May, French president reaffirmed the commitment of France as a co-chairing country of the Minsk Group to continue mediating to search for a peaceful solution to this conflict, twenty years after the ceasefire agreement entered into force.
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