Baku /17.10.19 / Turan: On October 17, President Ilham Aliyev received the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group: Stefan Visconti, Igor Popov, Andrew Chauffer and personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Andrzej Kasprzyk.
During the meeting, issues of the current state of the negotiation process on the Karabakh settlement were discussed. Details are not reported.
Recall that the co-chairs arrived in Baku after visiting Armenia and Karabakh. According to the Armenian media, there they discussed the likelihood of the next meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the implementation of humanitarian steps regarding the exchange of detainees. -02D-
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