Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. K.Ramazanova / The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs regulating the Nagorno-Krabakh conflict called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to fulfil the peace agreement without delay. It was noted in the joint statement of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs during the meeting in Madrid with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerebaijan.
During the meeting of the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of United State Matthew Bryza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the United States State Secretary Assistant on International Issues Nicolas Bern submitted the written proposals on the regulation of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to Azerbaijan and Armenia. The document includes 10 proposals, which have been discussed by both countries during the last three years.
Both parties were strongly urged to bring to a close the current stage of negotiations by endorsing the proposed Basic Principles and to draft, as soon as possible, a comprehensive Peace Agreement."
It was noted that over the last three years of talks that both countries had significantly narrowed their differences through the mediation of the Co-Chairs and that only a few discrepancies remained to be settled. As noted by the representatives of the three Co-Chair countries, the joint proposal that was passed on to the parties included fair and constructive solutions to these last remaining differences.