YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24, ARMENPRESS: The American, French and Russian co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are due to meet in Washington on March 6 to discuss their further steps concerning efforts to resolve the Armenian-Azeri dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Steven Mann, the USA cochairman in the OSCE Minsk group that is brokering peace between the parties and the other two co-chairs — Bernard Fassier of France and Yury Merzlyakov of Russia had agreed to meet in Washington after the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to reach agreement during two days of intensive negotiations in Paris earlier this month, which international mediators hoped would produce a breakthrough. “Despite intense discussions the positions of the parties on certain sensitive principles have remained identical to those they have had over past months,” the troika said in a statement issued after the talks ended in failure on February 11 at Rambouillet castle on the outskirts of Paris.
“However the presidents, who very much appreciated the process under way, have given instructions to their ministers … to explore new ways for a future settlement,” their statement said. APA news agency in Azerbaijan said, quoting an unnamed diplomatic source, that the Minsk group cochairmen would offer a new meeting of Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers after they meet in Washington.
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