US Minsk Group co-Chair meets Azerbaijani leader. Warlick described the meeting as "encouraging and productive".

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev this morning met in Baku with the US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Process, Ambassador James Warlick.

Warlick arrived in Baku over the weekend at the start of another round of diplomatic exchanges aimed at helping find a breakthrough in the stalled negotiations on the Karabakh conflict. The co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Process are trying to organise a meeting between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan before the end of the year.

Ambassador James Warlick described the meeting as "encouraging and productive" in a post on his twitter account. The Azerbaijani side reported the meeting without comment.

source: commonspace.eu

photo: Ambassador Warlick and President Aliev on 21 October 2013 (picture courtesy of the press Service of the President of Azerbaijan).

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