OSCE Minsk group: "The meeting of Presidents Aliyev and Sargsyan in Moscow confirmed their constructiveness"

"The Moscow meeting of the presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan last weekend gives grounds for optimism", said co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Matthew Bryza (the United States) by results of their speech with the OSCE special representative on Nagorno Karanakh Anzhey Kaspshik in front of the OSCE permanent council in Vienna.

"There are personal and objective factors in the region, which give grounds for the the co-chairs to be carefully optimistic", said Matthew Bryza.

"As for the personal factors, the meeting of Presidents Aliyev and Sargsyan in Moscow on November 2 proved the constructiveness of their first meeting in Saint-Petersburg in June of the last year.

This spirit of constructiveness allowed them to sign the first declaration on Nagorno Karabakh", Bernard Fassier supported the counterpart, adding that the discussions between Ankara and Yerevan can also be added to the list of positive factors.

According to the OSCE press service, the objective factors should include changes in some aspects since the war in South Ossetia.

The co-chairs said Armenia felt the vulnerability of the ways of its export and import via Georgia, while Azerbaijan felt vulnerability of energy corridor via Georgia.

Yuri Merzlyakov reminded that "the Moscow meeting, though prepared long before its conduction by the bilateral channels Russia-Armenia and Russia-Azerbaijan, is nevertheless in the framework of the Minsk Group countries efforts on mediation in the negotiations".

Anzhey Kaspshik reminded that 25 people died this year at the front of the Karabakh conflict and noted that such incidents cause a great damage to the process of peaceful solution.

The Minsk Group co-chairs also announced the plans to visit the region before the session of the OSCE Minsk Group in Helsinki, planned for December 4-5.

They promise to work with the conflict parties to fix the recently achieved positive impulse and try to find a mutually profitable for settlement of the remaining differences between the parties.

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