YEREVAN. – On December 4, within the framework of his working visit to Slovakia to participate in the 26th OSCE Ministerial Conference in Bratislava, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Stéphane Visconti (France) and Andrew Schofer (US), as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (CiO).

In the context of the latest developments in the process of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he underlined the importance of taking steps towards forming an environment conducive to peace, including through adherence to the agreements reached at previous meetings, MFA of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In terms of the arrangement for preparing the people for peace, the implementation of a journalistic exchange program, coordinated by the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO and whose participants were journalists from Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan, was welcomed.

Following this meeting, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met.