Armenia, Azerbaijan Leaders Meet Over Nagorno-Karabakh
| Publisher | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Publication Date | 27 October 2014 |
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The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have met for a third time in less than three months over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia's Serzh Sarkisian and Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev held face-to-face talks in Paris on October 27.
They were later joined by the co-chairs of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) -- U.S. Ambassador James Warlick, Igor Popov of Russia, and France's Pierre Andrieu.
Earlier on October 27, Sarkisian and Aliyev met separately with French President Francois Hollande.
Hollande urged both parties to show "political will" to overcome the differences.
Hollande reportedly said maintaining the status quo in the conflict was unacceptable.
Sarkisian said Yerevan remains committed to finding a negotiated peace to the Karabakh conflict.
Violence has increased recently along the line of contact between Armenian Karabakh forces and Azerbaijani troops, with more than 20 soldiers killed there since August.
Armenian-backed separatists seized Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s.
