Babacan had a meeting with Mammadyarov at Turkish House in New York.  

The Turkish foreign minister is also scheduled to have a trilateral meeting with Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian at the U.N. headquarters during the week.

The meeting will probably take place on Friday, and Babacan is expected to first meet Nalbandian, the Anatolian Agency reported. The trilateral meeting is expected to begin after the Babacan-Nalbandian meeting, it added.

Turkey aims to bring Armenian and Azerbaijani top diplomats together at the same table with the hope of taking a step towards finding a solution to the conflicts.

The ministers are expected to discuss the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in their both bilateral and trilateral meetings.

The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began in 1988 on Armenian territorial claims over Azerbaijan.

Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. Some 10 percent of the Azeri population was displaced due to a series of bloody clashes both between and within the two neighboring countries.

In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are currently holding peaceful negotiations.

Babacan and Mammadyarov had a meeting at a time when serious developments were occurring in the Caucasus, the spokesman of the Turkish Foreign Ministry told reporters after the meeting.

Turkey was exerting efforts to normalize life in Georgia, and stressing that Turkey saw the atmosphere that occurred after the crisis in Georgia as an opportunity to review some regional problems, spokesman Burak Ozugergin quoted Babacan as saying.

Mammadyarov said his country was searching a solution within the scope of "win-win" principle in the region. He also appreciated Turkey's role in the Caucasus.

He said he supported Turkey's proposal to set up Caucasus Cooperation and Stability Platform.

Azerbaijan sees a tripartite meeting with Turkey and Armenia as positive, and considers that it can be an opportunity to resolve problems, the Anatolian Agency said.

Babacan will have talks with around 40 foreign ministers on the sidelines of the 63rd session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly.

The Turkish foreign minister is expected to meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Monday.