Minsk Group Plan To Meet In Paris With The Foreign Minister of Armenia" width="262" height="161" />YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 9—The Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement plan to meet in March in Paris with the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on the threshold of their visit to the region, according to a statement released by the OSCE.

The co-chairs have already held a meeting in the capital of France with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov.

“They estimated the current stage of the negotiations on the Karabakh settlement. They also considered the remarks of the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides on the updated Madrid principles, which were handed over to them by the co-chairs in December 2009 and January 2010,” the statement says.

In November 2007, the Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group in Madrid submitted to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan the basic principles of the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. The Madrid principles in particular provide for the status of the Karabakh issue by means of free expression, as well as the maintenance of the overland communication between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, and the provision of security guarantees.

Translated from Russian by Yerevan Report