Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting participants agree to introduce mechanisms to investigate incidents

On May 16, the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, held their first meeting in Vienna after the escalation in Nagorno- Karabakh. 

The press office of the Armenian President reports that President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev took part in the discussions initiated by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries-Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. Present at the meeting were also the US Secretary of State John Kerry, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov and State Minister of France for European Affairs Harlem Desir. The meeting was attended also by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the two countries Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov, Ambassadors Igor Popov (Russia), James Warlick (USA), Pierre Andrieu (France) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

"Discussed was the tense situation resulting from the blatant violation of ceasefire in the NK conflict zone which took place at the beginning of April and possibilities to find way out from the existing situation. The representatives of the Co-Chair countries insisted upon the necessity to strictly implement the 1994 agreement on ceasefire and 1995 agreement on the consolidation of ceasefire. It was agreed to take steps for the monitoring of their implementation, establishment of mechanisms to investigate the ceasefire violations, enforcement of the capabilities of the team of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, and a possible re-start of the negotiations for the resolution of the conflict," the source says.