Azeri-Armenian meeting must mark starting point in new phase of Karabakh talks - OSCE
BAKU. June 2 (Interfax) - Necessity has arisen to hold one more meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia within the framework of the talks on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Organization for Security and Cooperatiion in Europe's Chairman-in-Office, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter said.
Burkhalter said, while making a joint statement with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev following bilateral talks on Monday, that the goal of his arrival in Baku was to hear different views and, possibly, to find ways of ensuring progress in the negotiating process.
He also said that his attitude to the settlement of the Armenian-Azeri conflict as the OSCE's chairman-in-office, is obvious.
Consistent steps should be made towards peace, he said. This means, he continued, that two main things should be done. First, dialogue should be intensified, he said. Dialogue was underway already, but necessity has arisen to hold a new meeting between the Azeri and Armenian presidents, Burkhalter said.
A proposal is on the agenda to organize such a meeting in Paris, he said.
The OSCE supports this idea and wants the meeting to be held in the near future, Burkhalter said, adding that the meeting must become the starting point for a new phase in the talks.
