Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers meet in Bratislava

Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met for more than three hours in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Wednesday evening (4 December). The meeting was held with the mediation and participation of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Stéphane Visconti (France) and Andrew Schofer (US), as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

There has been no official statement by the mediators so far, but diplomatic sources in Baku and Yerevan have confirmed that negotiations are expected to continue early next year.

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source: commonspace.eu

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