OREANDA-NEWS  On 05 June was announced, that the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev held a meeting at the Baltic Star Hotel in Saint Petersburg.

This meeting in Saint Petersburg is the fifth meeting of Presidents Sargsyan and Aliev in the framework of the NK peace process. The meeting started with the participation of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the two countries Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mamedyarov, Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov, Matt Bryza and Bernard Fassier, as well as the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzey Kasprzyk. Later, the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was continued in the tкte-а-tкte format. The negotiations, which lasted almost two and a half hours, were continued again in the extended format.

The meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was conducted in a constructive manner. The parties reached agreement to move forward the negotiation process. The Foreign Ministers of the two countries were instructed to continue to work with the assistance of the OSCE Co-Chairs toward the synchronization the parties’ positions and arrangement of the next meeting between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan.