After Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting in Munich, OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs called on Azerbaijani President to refrain from making warlike statements. As NEWS.am reported earlier, on the threshold of the meeting, Ilham Aliyev made a number of warlike statements. In particular, he stated that if the hope for talks comes to an end “country is justified in liberating its territories by coercive methods.”

The meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, has begun at the Consulate of France in Munich, Germany. Both countries’ Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandyan, as well as OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs- Robert Bradtke (USA), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and Bernard Fassier (France) and the personal representative of the Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andzrej Kasprzyk participated in the meeting. In the course of the meeting, the officials exchanged opinions on current stage and prospects of negotiations on Karabakh conflict settlement.

World mass media have provided coverage of the meeting in the context of the Azeri leader’s strongly worded statements. Specifically, the Euronews TV channel entitled its report as “Last chance talks over Karabakh”. The source reports that “the Moscow mediated truce deal signed last year between Azerbaijan and Armenia is on the verge of unravelling if talks today do not produce a result.” Referring to the Azeri leader, Euronews reports that “President Ilham Aliyev has already warned his country would be prepared to take the region back by force.”