The Co-Chairs discussed the situation in the region and particularly focused on the new developments following the escalation of violence on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in mid-July. The Co-Chairs closely studied and assessed the personal and public messages and concerns of the sides. Andrzej Kasprzyk informed the Co-Chairs about the situation in the security sector, and they welcomed his concrete preparations for restart of monitoring.
The Co-Chairs held personal talks with Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Jeyhun Bayramov and invited the ministers to meet with the Co-Chairs in person individually over the next few weeks to further specify their positions in order to resume serious and substantive talks without preconditions.
The Co-Chairs continue to actively and fully participate in the support to the talks over the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to their mandates in the OSCE.