Azerbaijan`s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov has met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), James Warlick (the U.S.) and Pierre Andrieu (France), as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk in Basel, Switzerland.
They discussed the negotiations on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the plans and proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs for the forthcoming year.

Reiterating the position of Azerbaijan with regard to the settlement of the conflict, FM Mammadyarov said Armenian Armed Forces must be first withdrawn from the occupied Azerbaijani territories for ensuring peaceful settlement of the conflict.

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