YEREVAN. – The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair hopes the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet later this year, Co-Chair from U.S. James Warlick said during a press conference in Yerevan.

“One of the reasons that we are bringing the presidents together, and we hope that they will meet later this year, is that we can have a process that leads to negotiated settlement,” the diplomat said.

Mr. Warlick noted that the co-chairs are discussing principles and elements of the settlement, but they had not “got into the level of detail when sitting down with maps.

“The presidents are talking about principles and elements that will make up the settlement, and I hope we can get to the point of sitting at negotiation table and working through many of these issues systematically,” he added.