Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations have met after the summer plenary session of the PACE. The 2-hour-long meeting between was attended also by President of the PACE Jean- Claude Mignon. The president appreciated the meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian sides as a goodwill event, APA reports.
"This was a meeting between friends, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, parliamentarians and was attended by the president of the PACE. We have decided to meet as friends here, in the home of democracy and to discuss how we can build our work together. I must say that I felt a presence of sincere desire, political will for joint activities on both parties. We decided to continue such meetings. We will meet at the next sessions," said Jean-Claude Mignon.
After the activity of a special PACE Subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh was suspended, the new President Jean-Claude Mignon did not agree to reopen the Subcommittee, but initiated informal meetings between the delegations of the two countries. Such meetings were held nearly at all the session of PACE, but until now it was meetings of the heads of delegations. During this session, all members of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations for the first time attended the meeting. No other details of the meeting are reported so far.