YEREVAN. Dec 13 (Interfax) - The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold their next meeting in the second half of January 2018, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"It has been agreed at the initiative of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs that a meeting of the two foreign ministers be held in the second half of January. We always demonstrate a constructive attitude at such meetings," the ministry quoted Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian as saying at the Greek Foreign Ministry.
Armenia is ready to continue negotiations on the basis of principles and elements of the Karabakh conflict settlement proposed by the co-chairs, Nalbandian said.
"There is no alternative to the negotiating process," he said.
The negotiations will advance and the status quo will change if Baku responds to the co-chairs' appeal to implementing the truce and fulfil the earlier agreements, he said.
A package solution to the conflict, which includes "the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh determined by the legally binding expression of the Karabakh people's will," is the core of the proposals put forward by the co-chairs, Nalbandian said.