President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Richard Hoagland, Igor Popov, Stephane Visconti, as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

Russian co-chair Igor Popov noted that despite the fact that the OSCE Minsk Group includes new co-chairs from the US and France, their countries` position on peaceful settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unchanged. He hailed the co-chair countries' keenness to launch substantial peace talks as soon as possible.

They exchanged views on the current state and prospects of negotiations on the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.