On September 17, 2008 Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Bernar Fassier, French Co-Chair of Minsk Group.

Minister Nalbandian highly appreciated the activity of Minsk Group in Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and underlined the importance to maintain Minsk Group format, which has proved its vitality. The two touched upon the situation in negotiation process and its perspectives. In that context Minister Nalbandian reaffirmed the Armenian side’s principal position to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem through peaceful negotiations.