Foreign ministers from the 56 participating states in OSCE Ministerial Council outlined a positive breakthrough in NKR conflict negotiation process, OSCE website reads.

“At the Athens meeting, the ministers also adopted a statement urging the Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries to sustain the positive dynamic of negotiations and aiming to finalize the Basic Principles on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” the source reads.

“We are convinced there is today a real opportunity to build a future of peace, stability and prosperity for the entire region,” the statement says.

As NEWS.am reported previously, OSCE Minsk Group and Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers issued joint statement, December 1, 2009.