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By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers, Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandian will meet in Paris next week.

A diplomatic source told Trend Agency that the ministers will continue discussing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the meeting.

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs - Igor Popov (Russia), Jacques Faure (France) and James Warlick (U.S.) will also attend the meeting.

Last time, the ministers met in the framework of the 20th OSCE Ministerial Council meeting held in Kyiv on December 5.

The heads of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair delegations and Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers voiced commitment to working together for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

The UN Security Council's four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal have not been enforced to this day.

Peace talks, mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. through the OSCE Minsk Group, are underway on the basis of a peace outline proposed by the Minsk Group co-chairs and dubbed the Madrid Principles. The negotiations have been largely fruitless so far.