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The meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia will be held in Vienna on December 6, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said.

According to the Azerbaijani media, he made the remark at a joint press conference following the trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Pakistan.

Mammadyarov also added they will meet with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in Vienna.

Speaking to Panorama.am, the Armenian foreign ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan neither confirmed nor denied this information adding, “such meetings are announced in advance”.

Earlier, the OSCE Minsk Co-Chairs released a statement saying the Armenian and Azerbaijani ministers  agreed to hold a joint meeting on the margins of the December 2017 OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna.

“The Co-Chairs will prepare the agenda for this meeting, which will include substantive issues of the political settlement, as well as specific measures to reduce tensions on the Line of Contact. Special attention will be paid to finalizing the expansion of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Office,” read the statement.