On September 26 Edward Nalbandian, who was in New-York within the delegation headed by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammedyarov. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Bernard Fassier (France), Metthew Bryza (USA), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and Andrzey Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-office also attended the meeting.
The negotiation process within the framework of Minsk Group for settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem based on the Madrid proposals made by Co-Chairs in 2007 was on agenda of the meeting. It was confirmed that the problem should be settled only through peaceful negotiations.
Then Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammedyarov had a tet-a-tet and discussed the ways of bringing closer positions of the parties on the settlement and possibilities of a new meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents.
On the same day Edward Nalbandian met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan. based on the instruction of Turkish and Armenian Presidents, the two Foreign Ministers continued the discussions on normalization of bilateral relations.
Afterwards, a trilateral meeting between Armenian, Azerbaijani and Turkish Foreign Ministers took place. In the course of the meeting they discussed recent regional developments and the initiative of establishing Caucasian platform.
On September 26 Minister Edward Nalbandian as the Chairman of Collective Security Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers Council gave a working lunch in honour of CSTO member-states’ Foreign Ministers in New-York. In the course of the meeting they discussed the coordination of CSTOM member states positions concerning the issues on the  UN General Assembly 63-rd sessions’ agenda.