Baku/16.10.19/Turan: A new meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan may be held in Slovakia in December this year as part of the summit of the OSCE Foreign Ministers, reported to journalists the Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov.
According to Sputnik-Armenia, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group arrived in Karabakh the day before, where they held talks with the leadership of the unrecognized republic.
Popov said, during the meeting they presented the results of the talks between Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov in New York in September this year. Popov said that they presented their approaches regarding those humanitarian issues that were discussed by the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at a meeting in Vienna in March. "We touched, in particular, the organization of the exchange of detainees. In this sense, we have several ideas; work on their implementation is ongoing. Recently we were in Geneva, met with the chair of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Mauer, with whom we had a conversation on this topic," said Popov.
On October 17, the co-chairs should hold talks in Baku.-02D-
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