The Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement talks, initiated by French President Francois Hollande, ended on the evening of October 27 at the Paris Marine Palace. After separate meetings with the French leader, the Armenian and Azeri Presidents conducted negotiations with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, followed by a private conversation between Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, presidential press service reported.
The negotiation results were summed up late in the evening at a joint meeting between Presidents Hollande, Sargsyan, Aliyev and the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov of Russia, James Warlick of the USA, Pierre Andrieu of France and the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
The participants stressed the importance to continuing the dialogue within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship and confidence-building efforts to make progress in peaceful negotiations. The absence of an alternative to the peaceful resolution of the conflict was stressed. The parties agreed to proceed with high-level negotiations.
On behalf of the French leader, a supper was held in honor of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents at the Elysee Palace on the evening of October 27.
