Davutoglu speaks with Azeri FM about talks on Nagorno-Karabakh

In a telephone conversation yesterday with his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu learned details of a meeting in Munich last week between Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsian as part of internationally mediated talks to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Mammadyarov reportedly told Davutoglu that the process will continue and that the co-chairs of the Minsk Group may meet in Athens as part of an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting. During the phone conversation, Davutoglu expressed his happiness at the progress reportedly made during the meeting. OSCE Co-Chairman Bernard Fassier told reporters afterwards that significant progress was made during the talks, as well as identifying a number of problematic matters. He said he and his co-mediators from the United States and Russia would start work on the next meeting, without specifying when it might take place. Turkey and Armenia have had no diplomatic or economic ties since the 1992 Armenian invasion of Nagorno-Karakbakh, an Azeri territory. After months of Swiss-mediated talks, Turkey and Armenia last month signed historic protocols towards establishing diplomatic relations.