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    Interfax, Russia
    May 7 2009


    Azeri, Armenian president meet in Prague

    PRAGUE May 7


    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev met
    at the U.S. Embassy in Prague on Thursday, a Prague-based source told
    Interfax.

    Asked by Interfax before an EU Eastern Partnership summit to comment
    on the meeting results, Sargsyan said it passed "positively."

    Western media reported that U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
    Matthew Bryza, who is also a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,
    attended the meeting behind closed doors between Aliyev and Sargsyan.


    Azeri, Armenian president meet in Prague (Part 2)

    PRAGUE May 7


    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev met
    at the U.S. Embassy in Prague on Thursday, a Prague-based source told
    Interfax.

    Asked by Interfax before an EU Eastern Partnership summit to comment
    on the meeting results, Sargsyan said it passed "positively."

    Western media reported that U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
    Matthew Bryza, who is also a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,
    attended the meeting behind closed doors between Aliyev and Sargsyan.

    Interfax reported earlier that the Azeri and Armenian leaders had
    agreed to hold another round of negotiations on the settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh problem in Prague on Thursday.

    The parties should continue coordination of key principles offered to
    them by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in Madrid in late 2007.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia confirmed that they had reached an
    understanding on a number of these principles but still disagree on
    the most sensitive issues.

    The stumbling block in the talks is Nagorno-Karabakh's legal
    status. Baku insists that the conflict be settled with Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity preserved, with which most of the international
    community agrees, while Yerevan believes the settlement should be
    based on another principle of international law, i.e. nations' right
    to self- determination.

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