The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs -Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Robert Bradtke (U.S.) released the following statement today:

“The Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier, France; Ambassador Robert Bradtke, United States) met in Moscow, Russia on April 22 to discuss recent developments, including high level meetings in Washington, Baku, and Moscow. They consider these meetings as providing a new impetus to the advancement of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of the Madrid Principles. The Co-Chairs will travel to Vienna in early May to brief the Minsk Group on these efforts.”