Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents will clarify timetable and place of next meeting within coming months

YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS. During the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, attended by the representatives of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries in Vienna, an agreement was reached to respects the ceasefire regime established by the agreements of 1994-1995, Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told in a briefing after the meeting. “An agreement was reached according to which the OSCE will launch the works of installing investigative mechanisms on the contact line. Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents will clarify the timetable and place of the next meeting within the coming months to continue talks over reaching a final solution for Nagorno Karabakh conflict”, Lavrov announced.

To the question of a reporter if mutual concessions are possible, Lavrov answered, “It is always possible to compromise. If there was no such an opportunity, Russia, France and the USA would not make efforts for it. We will continue working for a comprehensive and multilevel solution; we will progress step by step”.

The Vienna talks took place by the US initiative. Russia and the USA were represented in the meeting by their foreign ministers, while France was represented by first deputy foreign minister.