YEREVAN. May 27 (Interfax) - The co-chairs of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE MG), which mediates the Karabakh conflict, arrived in Armenia on Monday.
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan has met with the mediators in Yerevan, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan told journalists on Monday.
She said earlier that the co-chairmen would be visiting Yerevan, Stepanakert, and Baku during the trip.
Azerbaijan lost control over its Nagorno-Karabakh territory and seven other areas in the 1990s as a result of a conflict with the region's ethnic Armenians and Armenia itself.
A ceasefire was established between Armenia and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic, on the one side, and Azerbaijan, on the other, in May 1994.
At present, the negotiating process is mediated by the MG set up in 1992 to reach a peaceful settlement of the conflict. It comprises Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and Turkey and is co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States.
Azerbaijan does not recognize the breakaway republic as a party to the conflict and has refused to negotiate with it.