BAKU: Mann is in Azerbaijan

Baku Today
April 22 2004

Mann is in Azerbaijan

Baku Today 22/04/2004 16:07

OSCE Minsk group’s US chairman Steven Mann has arrived in Baku today.
Mann is having talks with Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar
Mammadyarov at the moment.
Later today he will meet with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev.
Mann started his fist tour of the South Caucasus as the OSCE Minsk
group’s US chairman on April 19, 2004.

He has visited Armenia and Georgia earlier.

The United States authorized Mann for the Minsk group on April 17.

US’s third spokesman at the group Rudolf Perina handed over his power
to Mann during the Minsk group’s peace mediating meeting in Prague
between Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers over Karabakh
conflict.