In the evening on 16 May, the meeting of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took place in Vienna.
The meeting was initiated by the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group. The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Secretary European Affairs of France Harlem Desiree. Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen, Igor Popov (Russia), James Warlick (USA), Pierre Andrieu (France) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman Andrzej Kasprzyk participated in the meeting.
The issues of the tension following the gross violation of the ceasefire regime in early April on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and the ways out of the situation were discussed.
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries insisted that the sides should strictly follow the ceasefire agreement reached in 1994 and reinstated in 1995. Agreements for the placement of monitoring and investigative mechanisms to help maintain the ceasefire were reached as well. Agreements on the expansion of the mandate of the OSCE Chairman in Office Personal Representative and the possible resumption of the negotiations process were also reached.
The RA President’s Staff reports.
