Press Release by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group

THE HAGUE, 24 March 2014 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and James Warlick of the United States of America) met separately with President Serzh Sargsian of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan in The Hague on March 23-24.  The Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office, Andrzej Kasprzyk, also attended the meetings.

The Co-Chairs informed the Presidents of the work done with the Foreign Ministers on the issues raised during the summit meeting in November.  They emphasized the need to avoid violence on the border and the Line of Contact, and encouraged the sides to refrain from inflammatory rhetoric that could increase tensions in the region.

The Foreign Ministers agreed to meet in Moscow in early April in preparation for a meeting of the Presidents in the near future.