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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan have launched a meeting in Geneva.

Axar.az reports that the statement came from the head of the Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Leyla Abdullayeva, on Twitter.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are Igor Popov (Russia), Stefan Visconti (France), Andrew Schoffer (USA) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan have ended their meeting in Geneva.

The statement came from the head of the Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Leyla Abdullayeva.

According to him, the meeting lasted 7 hours. "The meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Geneva on January 29, 2010, through the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, lasted 7 hours.

In general, the parties, as well as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, have a position on intensifying the negotiations and achieving concrete results on all issues on the agenda. The next round of talks will be held tomorrow, "the Foreign Ministry said.

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Stefan Visconti (France), Andrew Schoffer (USA) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman Andrzej Kasprzyk participated in the meeting.

The Foreign Ministers discussed the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.