Meeting between Azerbaijani, Armenian presidents will help co-chairs to formulate new suggestions: U.S. co-chair

"This in turn will help the co-chairs to formulate suggestions helpful for the sides to narrow their differences," OSCE Minsk Group U.S. co-chair Matthew Bryza said on July 17.

"Today's exchange of views of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia has provided the co-chairs with more detailed views of the presidents on the key remaining issues, which will help us formulate proposals to help the sides narrow their differences," he said.

On July 18, Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian presidents are expected to meet in a trilateral format.

This is sixth meeting in a format of Aliyev - Sargsian so far. Previous talks between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan took place on June 4 in St. Petersburg. The summit was the fifth between the heads of two countries on the Karabakh settlement. Previous meeting was  held in Prague on May 7. The first talks were held June of last year in St. Petersburg and the second meeting was held in late November 2008 in Moscow, the third - in Zurich on January 28 this year.

Bryza said the meeting was deep and constructive, and there was detailed discussion of the difficult elements of the Basic Principles that remain to be agreed.

"Unfortunately, the presidents did not make any new decisions today. But, they did build on the progress they made in St. Petersburg, where did take some decisions," he said.

American co-chair said he hopes that the presidents will make progress in the trilateral meeting tomorrow.

/Trend News/